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Easy Blooms Winter Wreath Meringue Cookies
These Easy Blooms Winter Wreath Meringue Cookies might just be too beautiful to eat! Made using Easy Blooms decorating tips, as well as an assortment of metal cake decorating tips, these meringue cookies would be simply stunning for a winter wedding or holiday party. Use icing colors to tint your batter in these cool winter shades, and take your Christmas cookies up a level with these elegant wreath and flower cookies.
Ingredients
Vanilla Meringue Powder Mix, 6.5 oz
Brown Icing Color, 1 oz.
Juniper Green Icing Color, 1 oz.
Black Icing Color, 1 oz.
Burgundy Icing Color, 1 oz.
Delphinium Blue Icing Color, 1 oz.
Red-Red Icing Color, 1 oz.
confectioners' sugar
Tools
Large Leaf Cake Decorating Tip 366
Standard Round Tip 6
14x20 Aluminum Cookie Sheet
Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count
Chrome Plated Cooling Grid, 14.5 x 20 Inch
Double Roll Parchment Paper
Multi Open Tip 234
Easy Blooms Tip Set
Round Cake Decorating Tip 3
Cake Decorating Tools, 5-Piece Brush Set
Large Petal Tip 124
Ruler
Instructions
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- Make meringue batter. Prepare meringue batter according to package instructions. Divide equally into seven portions.
- Tint batter. Combine Burgundy and Black icing colors to get purple color shown. Combine Burgundy and Red-Red icing colors to get red color shown. Combine Burgundy, Brown and Black icing colors to get medium brown color shown. Combine Juniper Green and Delphinium Blue to get medium green color shown. Combine Delphinium Bleu and Juniper Green icing colors to get blue-green color shown. Using color combinations provided, tint one portion each purple, red, medium brown, medium green and blue-green. Using Brown icing color, tint one portion light brown. Using Juniper Green icing color, tint remaining portion dark green.
Pipe wreaths. On backside of parchment paper cut to fit cookie sheet, draw 3½ in. circles, spacing 3 in. apart. Turn over; secure corners of paper to cookie sheet with small dots meringue batter.
For wreaths, prepare decorating bag with tip 234. Using decorating brush, paint inside of decorating bag with small amount Brown icing color; fill with light brown batter. Pipe circles following outline on parchment paper-covered cookie sheet.
Pipe flowers. For flowers, prepare bags as follows:
- Prepare decorating bag with small rose Easy Blooms tip. Fill with purple batter.
- Prepare decorating bag with small mum Easy Blooms tip. Fill with medium brown batter.
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 3 and dark green batter.
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 6 and red batter.
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 124 and medium green batter.
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 366 and blue-green batter.
Using purple batter, pipe flowers on wreaths.
Using medium brown batter, pipe pine cones on wreaths.
Using blue-green and medium green batters, pipe leaves and petals around flowers and pine cones. Using dark green batter, pipe pull-out dots to make pine needles on wreaths. With extra batter, pipe pine needle clusters on parchment paper.
Using red batter, pipe clusters of red dots on wreaths.
Use any extra batter to pipe additional flowers, pine cones, leaves and berry clusters on parchment paper.
Bake and cool following recipe instructions. Dust with confectioners’ sugar before serving, if desired.
Notes
How To
How to Pipe Icing Leaves
Make a simple, versatile leaf to add realistic details to flowers. Leaf tips can also be used to make simple flowers, such as sunflowers.
How to Pipe Dots
Perfect for classic borders or cloudlike decorations, dots are a versatile technique that can be piped in a range of sizes. The dot technique can be used as a simple border for cakes and cookies, as well as for icing cupcakes or piping meringues.
