Watercolor Leaf and Tree Cookies

Impress friends and family alike with these elegant Watercolor Leaf and Tree Cookies. Use icing colors and lemon extract to create edible paint, then have fun painting leaves and trees on fondant-covered cookies. To make it even easier, we suggest using your favorite store-bought cookies (no one has to know the secret)! A beautiful dessert for Thanksgiving or a lovely homemade hostess gift, these festive fall cookies are sure to make a statement.

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite Sugar Cookie
Decorator Preferred White Fondant, 24 oz. Fondant Icing
Clear Piping Gel for Cake Decorating, 10 oz.
lemon extract
Brown Icing Color, 1 oz.
Burgundy Icing Color, 1 oz.
Orange Icing Color, 1 oz.
Golden Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.

Tools
Fondant Roller, 9-Inch
Double-Sided Round Cut-Outs Set, 6-Piece
I Taught Myself Painting on Cakes

Instructions

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Roll out fondant. Using fondant roller with pink guide rings, roll out fondant. Using smallest circle cutter, cut out circles (one per cookie).
Using decorating brush from kit and piping gel, attach fondant circle to each cookie.
Mix paints. In palette from kit, mix small amounts of Orange, Yellow and Burgundy icing colors, separately, with lemon extract (should be watercolor consistency).
Mix Brown icing color with very small amount of lemon extract (should be standard paint consistency).
Decorate cookies.
Single trees: Using decorating brush and lemon extract, outline shape of treetops on fondant. Add touches of orange, yellow and burgundy colors, blending slightly.
Double trees and leaves: Using decorating brush and desired colors, outline and blend in tops of trees and leaves.
Allow cookies to dry, about 10 minutes.
Using decorating brush and brown color, add trunks, veins and stems.
Let cookies dry completely.