Birdcage & Butterfly Cookies How-To

You Will Need:

• Birdcage & Butterflies Wafer Paper Set
• No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe
• 1 bag royal icing
• 2.5" Square Cookie Cutter
• 3" Round Cookie Cutter
• Edible Clear Writing Gel
• Wax or parchment paper
• Small craft scissors
• Squeeze Bottles

Instructions:

1. Use the No Fail Sugar Cookie recipe and cut out several square and circle cookie shapes. Bake and cool as directed.
2. Ice each cookie with 1 layer of royal icing. Let it completely dry.
3. Carefully cut out wafer paper shapes using craft scissors, making sure each one will fit on the cookie. Be careful, wafer paper is fragile!
4. Adhere each wafer paper cut-out to a cookie shape by applying a thin layer of edible clear writing gel (or light corn syrup) to the top of the iced cookies.
5. Flip each cookie face down on a piece of wax paper to dry for about 30 minutes (this will keep the wafer paper shape flat).
6. Flip the cookies over and add additional decoration, such as edible pearls, edible glitter, or dragees, using the edible clear writing gel.
7. Let them completely dry and store in an airtight container.

TIP: We used Fluted Gold Petit Cupcake Liners to display our cookies.