How to Make Eyelet Lace Doily Cookies (aka Part 1 of My 3-D Wedding Bouquets)

hi welcome back everybody in this video we're making eyelet lace doilies very elaborate you might ask why would you want one of these well I often use these as doilies underneath my 3d wedding cake cookies which we'll talk about in a subsequent video and I use versions of these that have holes in the center for putting together my 3d wedding bouquet it'll be like the doily under line or underneath this beautiful bouquet of royal icing flowers but this is a pretty time-consuming little project as elaborate as it is so I wanted to dedicate a whole separate video to it now what will you need you will need to start with a fluted round cookie of any size shape really my largest one here is about 6 inches in diameter I got these gorgeous copper cutters from copper gifts calm and the smaller one that I'll be working on today is about 4 to 5 inches in diameter so you can get them in various sizes now the first step is actually marking off your pattern and let me talk about the smaller one because that's that's where I'm headed I want to mark off sort of some guidelines and then we're going to outline the basic pattern so I've got one smaller one that's already been marked off and outlined and let's you can do any number of patterns but for eyelet lace typically there's an opening in the lace and there's some other little string work in that lace so that's what I'm trying to replicate here just simple loopy patterns but to make it look perfectly symmetrical people often ask me gee how do you get it to look so perfectly symmetrical well one thing is I start with these fluted cutters and they're perfectly symmetrical to start I can use the little guide loops the little loops on the edge as a guide for piping otherwise I just mark off some simple guide marks so I'm gonna have one interior circle here that I want to mark off and to do that I just take a cookie cutter this one happens to be two and a half inches wide and I'm going to score I already did it just to show you what I did i centered it this one has a hole in the middle because it's going to go underneath the wedding bouquet and I'm going to be mounting a stick through that hole you can score the line and then just brush off the extra crumbs so it doesn't get in the way or if you feel like that's not visible enough you can always use an edible marker and mark it since I'm piping with white I'm going to avoid the edible marker just because I don't want it to bleed through the white but I just mark the side of it so you can see kind of how that looks okay so the net first step is then outlining this is basically an extension of outlining and flooding nothing more complicated than that and for outlining I like to use a relatively thick icing for each cup of my royal icing glue I usually add about 1/2 teaspoon to 3/4 teaspoons of water and what I'm going to do is start by outlining the border like here and then we're going to go ahead and fill out those areas I find for these loopy patterns if your icing is too thick it doesn't want to go in a rounded shape so sometimes I tend towards a looser outlining icing and I might normally just going to go all the way around kind of letting the icing fall and then rotating the cookie as I need to now you might wonder why I chose that particular size opening here I just wanted to leave enough room for big loops they're going to fall off this round here now let's do the round going pretty slowly because I'm trying to trace that circle sometimes I'll rotate the cookie here so I can see where my icing is falling it's hard to see it falling as my hand gets in the way I think that's round enough okay now my loops here's what I mean by using the edge of the cookie as a guide now I'm going to try to pipe a loop off the center off the this inner ring down towards the center of each loop and I'll use that as my visual guide I'm trying to make them all about that big go all the way around I mean you could mark off the endpoint of this loop you know where you want it to stop down here if you wanted you can measure all the way around but that just takes an extra step and I don't think we really need it here I'm just going to keep going all the way around if I don't like how our loop looks I think that one's a little short I'll wait for it to set up a little bit and I can come back in with my trusty needle and pick it up and then repipe the outline it's a little a little unrounded on the end and I might just fix that one so it's a little more perfect but we'll let it dry a little bit that way it's less light it's more easy to just pop it right off without smearing the icing any high points that are sticking up like right here you might knock them down we're going to be putting some beadwork on these as details later and sometimes those little Peaks can get in the way it's important to get that circle in the middle centered so that the pattern around it is symmetric if it's off a little bit even a little bit and some areas of loops are going to be slightly bigger you're going to less room for the loops than in other areas and since this is going to be a bouquet there's going to be a bouquet of flowers on top of this one I'm not going to put too much detail in the center because it's going to be covered later but what I am going to do is put another little set of loops coming off the inside of this circle and I'm going to use the previous loops that I pipe as the guide for those if they were symmetrical then this will be pretty symmetrical and making them pretty big because I want to put some little lattice work sort of those cross stitching if you will that you see on eyelet lace in the middle of them in a later step I'm always rotating it just so that I'm overhead and looking at it square on I find that if my body is at an angle to what I'm piping everything shifts a little bit to become slanted okey-dokey so it's totally outlined and now we want to flood the entire thing and by flooding I mean filling the interiors of those spaces with a looser icing usually a few teaspoons of water to every cup of icing glue now the key thing here in flooding this this particular cookie to note is that I'm flooding very small spaces and those particular spaces that are small are very prone to cratering and by cratering I mean the icing sinking as it dries and you'll see that that happened a little bit on this cookie that I did earlier you see how there's some sunken areas here as opposed to the edge being nice and poufy like on this cookie here the edge is nice and poufy no sunkens parts well the difference is though I know those areas are prone to cratering the difference is I treated that cookie differently than I did that cookie for this cookie I used a relatively thicker flood this one was probably slightly looser and I also got that one in a dehydrator to quick-set the icing almost immediately after I had piped it and that tends to keep it from sinking keeps it nice and poufy so if you want to avoid that kind of cratering effect you want to fill this as quickly as possible then stick it in a dehydrator you can use a heat gun to but that's more tedious so we're going to use the dehydrator today I've got it sitting right back beyond me and I'm only going to flood a section at a time so I'm not going to flood the entire cookie I'm just going to flood the outer ring and then the inner ring because if I wait too long if it takes too long to flood the icing can sink in the process of me flooding it because I haven't gotten it into the dehydrator soon enough so here I am depositing this with a pastry cone to get into these tiny areas and I'm trying I'm kind of pushing the icing down as well to make sure there are no air gaps under that also I think to some extent helps with cratering though I'm not sure that could be a wives tale but one thing that's important to note is so that I don't get a seam in the icing because this is a lot to flood very carefully I want to flood a little bit to one direction then I want to go back to the area where I started and start flooding in that area because if I wait too long that area will set up and I'll get a seam there so I'm going to do one more loop and then I'm going to come back and see how nice and puffy it is now and if I get this into the dehydrator fast enough it should stay that way knock on wood the icing is sometimes finicky ok so right about now I want to rotate and come back and connect with this area because the icing is still wet enough I can flood there seamlessly without there being a little mark and in some cases I'm not pushing like in those tiny areas in between loops I'm not punishing a lot icing and I'm just you know I'm not applying pressure from the cone I'm just scooting it around with the tip of the cone because they don't want to overflow the the outlines now as far as putting it in the dehydrator I just want to quick set the outside of the icing the outer shell of the icing so it doesn't sink back on itself so I'm going to leave it in there 5-10 minutes it depends on how much icing I'm trying to dry I don't want to dry the eye I don't need to draw the icing all the way through and I don't want to you because that can dry out the cookie so I will set my dehydrator on the lowest setting it's important to have a variable-speed dehydrator that's 95 degrees Fahrenheit because if it's any hotter than that the icing can puff up over puff and crack and we don't want that either just bits and back it's out of the dehydrator the other advantage so here's the cookie that's been dehydrated and here was the one that wasn't and so so you'll see that I don't have any of the depressions that I have any of the sinkage that I have here I don't see it here it's all nice and poufy and that's because I quick set the outside the other advantages it also dries the cookie with a little bit of a sheen it dries with less of a matte finish you might do a little quick little outline around this hole in the center because I don't want to flood into that for any doilies that I mount on sticks I'd like to leave that clear and I mount them on sticks for my bridal bouquet sometimes we'll talk about that later okay so there's a really tight corner here there's just a nuance to the flooding here that I didn't have on the other piece it's really tight corner here and I'll take my trusty needle is the tip of my cone is too big and kind of work the icing in there if I need to also the trussing needles handy for popping air bubbles I see one here on the outer edge that I should have popped before it went in the dehydrator if I pop that now leave a big will be a big hole there so you want to pop air bubbles before you dehydrate if you see any pushing the the icing through a cone like this helps to push some of these straight air bubbles out of the icing though so I'm not I don't have too much in this icing okay before I go all the way around I want to make sure I'm knocking the icing into these little corners before it sets up so I don't have little holes there okay I would once I'm done with this I would stick this in the dehydrator again just to make sure that the center area stays nice and puffy it is more open it's less crowded with small openings so it's less it's more likely to stay puffy without dehydrating but just in case it's really only the small angular areas that are really prone to cratering rather okay that would go in the dehydrator but we're going to go ahead and move ahead with the rest of the detailing so a normal eyelet lace there are these openings but there it also these fine little cross stitches that often fill the openings so I'm going to just try to replicate that what I've done here on this pink doily the one with the pink dots on this cookie here by putting in some of the details and the loops that we've got piped and then I'll come back and finish it out probably with brown edging I think the Brown shows up a little bit better than that pink round dots now for the tiny little lines those are like hair hair thin lines actually I use an out and an icing of outlining consistency again maybe a little bit on the looser side just to show you what that looks like it plops off a spoon and that's that 1/2 teaspoon District quarter teaspoon water for every cup of glue I cover back up because it dries out really quickly and I've got that anna parchment cone I like to work with a parchment cone here because I can sometimes I don't even have to cut an opening in it and I can get just the size I need so my eyes things shouldn't because it's a little looser than usual for outlining it I don't have to apply too much pressure to get it out of that tiny hole if you're really hurt if your hands are really hurting then you might want to thin the icing a little bit so for the pattern and the big loops I just draw a one line down I heard the icing and let it fall and touch the other edge I'm going to be ultra careful with this cookie because my icing even though it's been dehydrated is not dry all the way through I don't want to press down too hard on it so by those hair thin lines and then I just did a little cross right across the center of it if I overshoot and get on to the edge of the doily again I'd like to let the icing dry completely before I put the detail work on I can scrape it off carefully I'm going to do a couple more of those to give you an idea what I did and then I'll just complete the bead work detailing I'm not going to go all the way around this cookie because this could take me quite some time if you see your icing doing what that just did mistake it broke right in the middle this is hard to clean up I'm going to let that dry and I'll come and scoop it out with my trusting needle and start all over my icing is also curling little bit at the end which probably means I need to open up the tip a teeny bit more shouldn't do that quite so much it's a little better now it's a lot thicker though the line but I think that'll work so one straight line and then across I'll do a few more of these for these smaller openings all I did was simply put a single line through the center here you have to be super careful because my Center is not at all dry let me just show you how I would correct an error like this I do like it to give it a little bit of time to dry because you see how it just kind of then flakes off without smearing everywhere it's a much easier cleanup job and if I have a little brush I could get all that out so the big brush let's see if that works you're really careful with it so I'm just going to finish off half the doily because I think you have the general idea of how this works and then I'll go ahead and show you how to finish off the edges with dot work just one more cross here and just as again as a word of caution it's best to wait make sure that the icing is completely dry this was just dehydrated across the top before you do this detail work because I applied a little too much pressure here and took a little bit of the icing out because it's still soft underneath with five minutes in the dehydrator okay so I'm going to detail with some little teeny brown dots let me just show you an example so around each little loop teeny teeny teeny brown dots and then some bigger dots as accents once I get the little ones down and then we might do some tiny little white dots around the outer edge so for that I have icing a beadwork consistency which for each cup of my icing glue I have about two to three teaspoons of water in it and again this wasn't it the bag for a little while so the tip dried shut but I've just forced the icing out testing on my work surface first and it's forming a nice little dot on its own I'm applying no pressure here I'm just going to go all the way around the edge do a couple of these just so you get the gist of it be really really applying hardly any pressure to get these teeny tiny dots and I've got a barely perceptible hole cut in a tip I did them around these little areas as well the icing up here is still wet because I didn't dehydrate this so not to be super careful I just think this helps to a conceal any of the ends of the white lines that I piped earlier some just I'm actually piping these little dots right on top of them to hide them it just kind of accentuates the loop a little bit more you can see you want to set aside some time for this project because this kind of detail work it's just time consuming this little doily here this four or five inch one might take me a half an hour to 45 minutes to do from start to finish the bigger one obviously a little bit longer okay now I would complete all the little dots first then come back open up the tip a little bit so I can get bigger dots in some of these other accent points so I put big dots here again that kind of conceal these joints I like to I like to put dots to conceal problem areas the where lines come together and connect that's a good place for a dot I'm also going to put some down here and then lastly I'd come in with icing of beadwork and white icing a beadwork consistency in a cone with very very small opening to do the tiny little dots on the very outer edge so I'm just transferring that icing I use to flood before which is basically the right consistency into another crown it has very tiny opening testing it it's working well come down here and apply dots to this edge kind of working from the side here and hanging it off the edge of the icing to conceal the outline that I piped earlier and also when you view this doily from the top it just kind of creates the sense of a little bit of a lacy edge so I would continue in that vein first all the little little brown dots let them dry then the dark brown dots and then come back in with the white dots and then you'll end up with something that looks like this before we cut and go to the next video I did want to talk a little bit about how I extended that smaller pattern onto this larger cookie this is the six inch round you know it's simple no matter is it's really as simple as just creating another layer so I had a smaller Gide in the middle and a larger guide traced on the outside I did the exact same pattern on this outer rim but then I did some interior loops in that middle ring and that I did some other loops and the very inside ring so you can get as elaborate if you want I got a little more elaborate on this one because I'm going to be putting a 3d wedding cake on it some more of it will be exposed on this one with a hole there'll be a whole arrangement in the middle so there's no reason to do the center so anyway beautiful cookies on their own beautiful underneath a wedding bouquet are beautiful underneath the 3d wedding cake in future videos till then love sweetly

Channel: JuliaMUsher

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Length: 22min 11sec (1331 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 21 2014