These Whimsical Yellow Rose Cookes are so pretty and just scream bright and happy and spring! They're made with a roll-out sugar cookie recipe and decorated with royal icing and using a custom cookie cutter from Etsy!
Originally posted October 2016, updated March 2024.
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A few months back I was asked to do these Yellow Rose Cookies for a sorority. The yellow rose is their signature flower and while she sent me a few other ideas, the rose immediately stuck in my head.
Yellow roses are a symbol of JOY (my favorite word) and friendship and well, they're a really pretty flower. Looking at them makes me feel light and happy. So anyway...
I remembered seeing some beautiful whimsical yellow rose cookies on Bake at 350 (one of my favorite blogs) several years back, so I looked them up, sent a pic to my clients and they loved them!
The only problem with those yellow 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 pretty easy to pull together and are very forgiving if cookie decorating is not your strongest gift.
Yellow Rose Cookies Recipes
Here's the breakdown:
- First I baked the cookies using this perfect roll-out sugar cookie recipe. The ingredients are very basic and this dough is so easy to use and never spreads when baking!
- 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. For the leaves I used Americolor Leaf Green.
- When I began icing them, I flooded the whole cookie with yellow 20-second icing (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 food 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 a while.
- And that was it... easy-peasy!
Tools You'll Need for Rose Cookies
- Mixing Bowl
- Piping Bag
- Small Round Tip
- Whimsical Rose Cookie Cutter
Serving Suggestions
These whimsical rose cookies would be perfect for so many occasions (besides a sorority party):
- Mother's Day (mom would LOVE these!)
- Spring Birthday Party
- Anniversary Party
Did I miss any details? If so, leave me a comment! Happy Caking!
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Christine
Absolutely beautiful! I love this color!
Leslie
These are adorable! I've been wanting to make sugar cookies, but have been a bit intimidated by it so far. Eventually I will get myself to finally try it out!
Wendy
These roses are so pretty! Delicate and elegant!
Rose
Thank you Wendy!
Shirley Wood
They are so pretty. Thank goodness for cookie cutters! I found some online a few years ago which I needed to cut sandwiches for a construction themed baby shower I hosted. Thanks for sharing with us at Merry Monday.
sahana
Looks so beautiful. Thank you for linking up with us at #HomeMattersParty .See you again next week.
Gail Haynes
Love looking at your cakes,They are awesome wish I could take classes from you!!!
Rose Atwater
Aww, thank you!