Whimsical Yellow Rose Cookies

It's just after midnight so technically I missed "day 5" of the Write 31 Days Challenge, but since I'm still up and just finished Day 5 on my other blog (before midnight... yay!), I wanted to keep my streak up and write here too... so here goes!  A few months back I was asked to do these Yellow Rose Cookies for a sorority.

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• Yellow Rose Cookies

The yellow rose is their signature flower and while she sent me a few other ideas - the rose immediately stuck in my head.

I remembered seeing some beautiful whimsical yellow rose cookies on Bake at 350 several years back, so I looked them up, sent a pic to my clients and they loved them!

The only problem with those cookies was Bridget hand-cut them and I really really didn't want to hand-cut 60 cookies...

With a little more research, I found that I could buy a very similarly shaped whimsical rose cookie cutter on Etsy, and I did just that!

Once I had the cookie cutter, the cookies were really pretty easy to pull together.

Yellow Rose Cookies

Here's the breakdown:

• First I baked the cookies using this perfect roll-out sugar cookie recipe.
• Next, I mixed up this royal icing and colored it the whole batch yellow (yes, all!).
• I used a mix of Americolor Lemon Yellow and Americolor Egg Yellow.
• When I began icing them, I flooded the whole cookie with yellow (except the leaf).
• After it dried for at least an hour, I went back and piped on the swiggly lines.
• When I had them all to that stage, I added green gel coloring to the remaining yellow frosting and went back and did the same steps on the leaves.
• First, I flooded them.  Then I piped the lines on top for definition after they dried for awhile.
• And that was it... easy-peasy!

Did I miss any details?  If so, leave me a comment!  Happy Caking!