A white on white design would be exquisite!

I own, as many of us do, a plethora of square cutters. I use them for mini cakes, sugar cookies, and biscuits. I try and use them as much as possible, however I sometimes find myself in a rut. It was literally kismet that I was playing around with scratch piping primroses when this idea for scratch piping primroses on a tufted open heart popped into my head. Primroses have heart shaped petals that matched my tufted heart.

I seem to become engrossed when piping small designs and never know if I like my work until I take a few steps back. I was surprised to see I had designed a primrose garden around the heart and couldn’t wait to video a tutorial for you!

Primrose Garden on a Tufted Heart Sugar Cookie:

This has to be one of my favorite sugar cookie designs!

Equipment:

• Cookie cutters
• PME #3 writing nozzle/tip
• PME # 2 writing nozzle/tip
• PME St50 small leaf
• #0 Artist brush
• Scriber tool

Material:

• Bobbie’s sugar cookie recipe
• Bobbie’s royal icing recipe
• Gum arabic
• Glucose
• Royal icing
• Fondant
• Vine green food paste,SKGI
• Moss green food paste, Wilton
• Fairy pink petal dust, CC
• Everclear or lemon extract

Find supplies here

 Scratch piping is a pressure piping whilst keeping the nozzle/tip on the cookie. Eddie Spence has an entire chapter dedicated to scratch piping.

Pointiers for success; practice pressure piping on royal icing or fondant covered cake dummy. You will need to create a rhythm to pressure piping; start with a bead of pressure, gently release 3/4th the pressure and literally scratch the surface (without lifting the nozzle/tip). Once you the first half of the primrose petal is completed release pressure completely and lift the nozzle/tip, repeat for the second half of the primrose petal and continue around until you have all five petals. Pipe a bead in the centre to finish.

I marked five sections equal distance from each other, to achieve a nice balance.

To achieve the two tone vine an leaf colour.

Royal icing consistency:

Check out the video on the decorated tufted heart!

For primrose scratch piping off peak consistency.

For leaves off-peak consistency.

For vines soft-medium peak constancy.

For the tutorial on the construction of the Primrose Garden Tufted Heart on a Sugar Cookie.

If you have any questions please leave me a message.

I would love to see your tufted heart designs.

Decorating the primrose garden was relaxing and fun!

Enjoy!

Voila!