Awww......Kites speak of summer vacation and time to enjoy sunny and windy days
with those diamonds in the sky.
And kite cookies are really quite easy.
Add some bakers twine and you have a cute kite floating in the cookie clouds.
Start with a diamond-shaped cookies.
This is the set of cutters used for these cookies.
(I love Ateco cutters, by the way!)
Once the cookies are baked and cooled, you get to choose whether you want
solid colored kites or kites with multi-colors and patterns.
For the latter, visually divide the diamond cookie into four parts,
and add a pattern with the first color in triangles adjacent to each other.
(see photo below)
This is the set of cutters used for these cookies.
(I love Ateco cutters, by the way!)
Once the cookies are baked and cooled, you get to choose whether you want
solid colored kites or kites with multi-colors and patterns.
For the latter, visually divide the diamond cookie into four parts,
and add a pattern with the first color in triangles adjacent to each other.
(see photo below)
Wait 10 minutes and fill in the other two triangles with a second color and pattern.
For the solid colored kites, outline and flood the entire diamond cookie.
Allow them to dry for about 1 hour, and then use a cake tester to
add the cross indentations into the partially dried glaze.
(see photo below)
Outline each quadrant in coordinated colors.
(see photo below)
Allow the cookies to dry overnight.
Cut bakers twine twice as long as you'd like the "kite string" to be on each kite cookie.
Fold the string in half and then tie random knots through out the length of the doubled twine.
(see photo below)
Add a dot of glaze in the coordinating kite color to the center of the kite (at the cross point)
and press the end of the twine into the wet glaze.
So now, it's time to go fly a kite......in the cookie clouds. :)
2016 Summer Decorated Cookie Collection