I got to make these cute elephant cookies for a bridal shower! The woman in charge of the shower presented me with a few sample images of what she was looking for, and I was able to brainstorm myself, and incorporate the wedding colors into the design I ended up using.! They turned out so cute!
First, I baked the sugar cookies (cut out using a custom elephant cookie cutter), and allowed them to cool completely. Then, I mixed up a batch of royal icing. Royal icing is really handy to use for cookie decorating because it dries completely with a clean finish, and easy to manipulate with a little bit of patience (well a lot of patience, let's be honest, it takes forevvvvver!) The biggest tips to using royal icing successfully are to keep unused icing covered tightly with Saran wrap (it can and will dry out super quickly otherwise), and to allow outlines to dry for a few minutes before flooding with thinned out icing (or your design may bleed).
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