Tulips are another favorite spring flower!
Parrot tulips are perfect for an early spring wedding, with their curly, twisted, and fringed petals that resemble feathers. Painting them on a sugar cookie would be a beautiful wedding favor, the colour combinations are endless. Once you master painting the petal layering is fun and extravagant!
I wanted to prepare a video tutorial that would help you successfully paint any type of leaf/petal to resemble your favorite flower. There are a few techniques for different types of petals and leaves. I will start with some basics for you to practice and then demonstrate few intermediate petals and leaves. I hope once you have studied these methods you will have a brilliant time painting on cookies,cakes, and cupcakes.
Parrot Tulip Painted Sugar Cookie:
Equipment:
By changing the colour recipe you have lavender and magenta for your tulips!
- #9 flat brush,
- 1/4 angle shader brush
- Foam plate
- Painters palate, optional
- #2 PME writer nozzle/tip, for the border
- Paper towels
Material:
- 1-Saffron Sugar cookie recipe, covered with or fondant (Satin Ice) or royal icing
- Royal icing
- Food Paste
- ice blue SF
- Pink, Sf
- Super white, SF
- Gooseberry, Sf or Moss green,W
- Vine, SKGI
- Piping gel, clear CK
- Water
You can find the supplies at Shop 5th Avenue Cakes
Tulip Colour Recipe:
For the lavender colour mix 3 parts ice blue to 1 part pink.
For the Magenta Colour mix 3 part pink to 1 part ice blue.
Then properly load the angle shader with white on the toe and the colour of choice on the heel.
I have added a petal photo study.
Petal/leaf stroke study
Placement guide of the entire flower.
A flower map!
Please enjoy the video.
The link for the intermediate Parrot Tulip HD video..27.04 minutes
Although I said you can load on a paper towel, I meant a foam paper plate!
The best method for practicing edible painting is to cover a cake cardboard with fondant allow it to dry for 4 hours and practice the different strokes, create a few flowers and ribbons.
By adding the white while you load your brush the food paste dries in a few hours!
Once you feel comfortable cover a styrene cake with either fondant or marzipan and royal icing cover. Allow the styrene cake to dry for several hours if fondant, if royal icing 24 to 48 hours of drying time is necessary. Decide on a pattern and paint your design. I find painting on royal icing or fondant cookies is sometimes less intimidating than an entire cake.
Happy cookie decorating!
Very Pretty, nice job. So talented.
Thank you!
Love tulips – Would love to see this submitted at Food Foto Gallery . com (without watermarks, please) so I can share with all my foodie friends 🙂
Thank you CJ, What size do need?
Would have loved to see the purple flower done. Pretty please ☺
Bonnie the video-tutorial for the Purple Parrot Tulip can be found here: http://bit.ly/1mnZJyb. Hope this helps!
Hi I paint one stroke . I want to try to paint on cookies but have read that fondant doesn’t taste very good If I use royal icing can I paint with the one stroke method? Love watching your tutorials
Nina, you may paint one stroke on royal icing. Allow the royal icing top coat or fill-in to dry completely and follow the same method. Some fondants taste bad, but the fondant I use is yummy!!
I have tryed painting on cookies .i used vodka,and it made craters on my R.I .Are you using straight Mel color. Do you like ameri color,thanks enjoyed one stroke leaves , I fell I can do ,with you right there.on video.
Thank you, Lori, I use a slightly damp brush with either lemon extract, Evercleafr,or water and food gel. As far as the the food gel paste I like Wilton, Americolor, and RainbowDust Progel (sparingly).