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Lay your tissue paper stencil over your cookie and, once you have it where you want it, tape it down on at least two sides to keep it from moving. Once your icing has completely dried (preferably overnight just to be on the safe side), you can start transferring your designs. Repeat this process for all the images you plan on using. Using a pin or needle, poke small holes along the lines you traced.
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This will keep you from scratching your work surface while your poking holes in your tissue paper (in case you work at your dining room table like I do). Once you’re done tracing, remove the image and replace it with a small piece of cardboard. Tape down your image, and tape your piece of tissue paper over it so neither move while you’re tracing. You want it bigger than your cookies because you’re going to be taping it to your work surface on either side (tape doesn’t stick very well cookies). Cut out squares of your tissue paper that are larger than your images and large enough to cover your cookies and go over the edges. Unfortunately, this method doesn’t work very well for transferring fine detail. This method will create a sort of connect-the-dot stencil that’s ideal for giving you a basic outline to work with. While the icing dries, you can make your stencils. You could also draw the border on later, but I found it easier to just pipe it from the start. Pipe the black icing first and let it dry for at least a few hours before flooding with the white icing. Once you’ve made your cookies, you can mix up some black piping icing and white flood icing. I wanted mine to be big enough that I could get some fine detail on them, but not too big, so I went with 7cm wide by 8 cm long. You can really make them whatever size you’d like as long as they’re rectangular since you can resize the images to fit the cookies. Then it hit me! I’d created little holes in my tissue paper images, and now the edible marker would bleed through! And suddenly, I had my transfer method!ġ0 rectangular cookies (Mine measured about 7cm x 8cm)
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Nothing seemed to work! In a final attempt to transfer my images, I tried pricking one of my tissue paper designs onto one of the cookies (something I picked up from Sweet Sugarbelle’s lace tutorial), but I couldn’t see the tiny holes. I tried multiple methods to transfer my images onto the cookies, everything from Sweet Ambs’ method of tracing over tissue paper versions of the images with an edible pen (I couldn’t seem to get it to bleed through) to trying to building my own projector out of boxes and a flashlight (I was getting a little desperate… can you tell?). However, all of the images were fairly detailed and I didn’t have a ton of time or cookies to get the images right. I decided way in advance that I was going to make cookies that looked like comic panels, and I picked out a few images that I liked and thought would look good on the cookies. But I didn’t want to throw just any ol’ superhero party, I wanted to make it an old school comic book superhero party. For my husband’s birthday this year, I threw him a superhero themed party.