One Unicorn Cookie | 2 Ways - TEXTILE FOR INSPIRATION

H5N1 variation from our "one cake, ii ways" recipe series, this "one cookie, ii ways" persuasion is similar to what I did at Valentines, using the marble fondant, but I added some pretty decorations using candy melts I molded into flowers. Jump below for the recipe.

Flower Candy Melts
(Make the bloom candies ahead of time)
silicone candy bloom molds
1 packet of pinkish Wilton Candy Melts
1 packet of white Wilton Candy Melts
H5N1 laid of Wilton Candy nutrient colouring (note: regular nutrient colouring won't work)
microwave

Melt about ten melts inwards the microwave for xxx seconds. Stir, as well as microwave inwards ten 2nd intervals until good melted.

To brand unlike colours. We made a few variations. To brand a peach colour, nosotros added a chip of orangish nutrient colouring (1 drop) to most ten pinkish candy melts. We made ii unlike shades of yellow, for the pale yellowish add together yellowish nutrient colouring (1 drop) to ten white melts. For the darker, nosotros added most three drops to the white melts.

Pour into the bloom molds as well as allow sit down until cooled (approximately v minutes if you lot position them inwards the fridge). Pop out as well as brand more!

Butter's Shaped Sugar Cookies

(from Butter Baked Goods, published past times Random House)

makes most 24 cookies, using a three 1/2-inch cutter

three cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature

3/4 loving cup icing sugar

1/2 loving cup granulated sugar

2 tablespoons pure vanilla

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets alongside parchment newspaper as well as laid aside.

2. Onto a large slice of parchment paper, sift together the flour as well as baking powder. Set aside.

3. In a stand upwards mixer fitted alongside a paddle attachment, cream the butter as well as sugars on medium to high speed until lite as well as fluffy. Scrape downwards the sides of the bowl. Add the vanilla as well as mix to combine. Scrape downwards the sides of the bowl again.

4. Turn the mixer to depression as well as add together the dry out ingredients as well as mix until fully combined.

5. Shape the dough into a large disk, most 1 inch thick, and roll inwards plastic wrap. Chill inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree an hour.

6. Divide the disk inwards two, as well as house one-half the dough on a lightly floured move surface. Use a rolling pivot to curlicue out the dough to most 1/4 inch thick.

7. Use the cookie cutter of your alternative to cutting out most 12 cookies. Carefully transfer to the prepared cookie sheets as well as house most 1/2 inch apart. You may accept to combine the dough scraps as well as re-roll the dough to cutting out plenty cookies. Avoid doing this also many times, equally the cookies volition teach tough alongside over-handling.

8. Use a rolling pivot to curlicue out the 2nd disk of dough to most 1/4 inch mean value as well as repeat stride 7.

9. Bake inwards the preheated oven for fifteen minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned about the edges.

10. Remove from the oven as well as allow cookies to cool for most ten minutes on the sheets, as well as therefore transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

For the Fondant + Decorations

1 Package of white fondant

1 cookie cutter

1 drib of pinkish nutrient colouring

1 drib of bluish nutrient colouring

1 pocket-sized paintbrush

1 pocket-sized bowl of water

Gold star sprinkles

Click below for instructions.

To Decorate

1. Break the fondant icing into ii pieces. Place each inwards a bowl as well as punch downwards a bit. Add 1 drib of nutrient colouring inwards each slice as well as bend the fondant inwards as well as over. Then twist therefore it looks similar a twisted stick almost.

2. Flour (using icing sugar) a pastry board as well as rolling pin.

2. Place the fondant onto the board as well as showtime to curlicue out the fondant, folding over a few times to create a marbled effect. Roll out to appoximately to 1/8" thick. (Be careful non to mix also much, otherwise the marbling volition teach 1 colour).

3. Using the same cookie cutter as well as size equally you lot used for the cookies, cutting out the fondant icing.

4. Using a paintbrush, dip it inwards H2O as well as pigment the dorsum of the cutting fondant pump as well as and therefore house onto the cookie therefore that it volition stick.

5. Dampen the summit of the fondant alongside the paintbrush (not also much) merely plenty to teach the sprinkles to stick to the top. Sprinkle alongside a few gilded sprinkles.

6. Top alongside the bloom candy melts (using a chip of H2O to move on them sticking to the fondant)