Hey Besties! It’s sunflower season and I’m so excited for it! To celebrate, our newest step-by-step cookie design is this adorable sunflower stand cookie! Not only is this an adorable design, but it’s a great example of learning order of operations! Before I ever started decorating cookies, I had NO IDEA how they were made! Like, what were the steps?! Well Bestie, I’m breaking it ALL down for you today step-by-step! And once you understand order of operations, you can dissect virtually any cookie to know exactly how it was created! Let’s jump in!!
Sunflower Stand Cookie
If you’ve been here before, you know I only invest in cookie cutters that I’ll use oner and over again. And this is one of those! Bobbi, of Bobbi’s Cutters, was sweet enough to provide this cookie stand cutter for this tutorial! Which will be used for lemonade stands, pumpkin stands, ice cream stands and other fun designs year-round!
Bobbi has also offered a 10% discount on your entire order, when you use the promo code BESTIE10, so happy shopping! You can use this code every time you shop at Bobbi’s! It’s a Bestie perk!!
Step-By-Step Cookie Guide
Before we can get to the decorating, I want you to know that our step-by-step cookie guide is the best place to start if you need any cookie recipes, a fabulous royal icing recipe, help with icing consistencies and more. You can find it HERE and it’s a great resource to support this step-by-step cookie!
And while there are a million cookie decorating videos out there that are SO fun to watch, my step-by-step cookie tutorials actually break it all down for you. There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes in decorating videos and it’s helpful for you to know!
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS
Let’s walk through the exact steps of decorating this adorable sunflower stand cookie!
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Start with a delicious cookie canvas! For today’s cookie, we’re using our no-chill caramel cutout cookie recipe! Not to be confused with our salted caramel cutout cookie recipe, this regular caramel one is a true, sweet caramel flavor. Both recipes are very popular but have very different flavors!
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If making and using royal icing transfers is new to you, THIS is a great intro tutorial to get you started! And you can click each of these links for the free Daisy and Sunflower royal icing transfer sheets! Use these to make your own beautiful flowers fir your cookies!
Step-By-Step: Cookie Decorating Video
To see it all in action, you’ll find this step-by-step cookie decorating video HERE!
Need Any Help?
Don’t worry, Bestie, we’ve got you! THIS ultimate guide will help with recipes, consistencies, tools and more! We also have a private group where you can ask questions, get more help and share your photos and progress HERE! We can’t wait to celebrate your skills!
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