Joyful Summer Pineapple Cookie Tutorial
By: Radoslava Kirilova
Edibles:
Egg-shaped cookie
Petal dust: pearl shimmer, bright yellow, turquoise, yellow, and brown
Black edible pen
Royal icing: yellow, green, beige, orange, and fuchsia
Gel food color: brown, chestnut, leaf green, peach, orange, poppy red, pink, and white
Equipment:
Large dusting brush
Piping bags
Piping tips: #1.5, #2, #57R (PME)
Paintbrushes: flat and round
Decorate the Cookie
- Dust your cookie with a large, fluffy brush to resemble a beach, using pearl shimmer, bright yellow, and turquoise petal dust.
- Draw your pineapple template on the cookie with an edible pen.
- Make the pineapple leaves with green royal icing and a #1.5 tip, from the inside out.
- Make the pineapple leaves with green royal icing and a #1.5 tip, from the inside out.
- Pipe beige royal icing using a #2 tip to make the ribbon, forming the sides first before filling in the middle.
- Pipe orange royal icing using a #57R tip and flatten with a small, flat paintbrush to form petals.
- Change the orange royal icing tip to a #1 to make the stamen and the side petals.
- With the fuchsia royal icing and a #57R tip, make 4 petals and flatten after each one of them with the round paintbrush.
- Change the fuchsia royal icing tip to a #1 and make the stamen.
- Paint the details and the inscription on the ribbon with brown gel food color.
- Add dimension to the pineapple with chestnut gel food color.
- Dust the pineapple with brown petal dust.
- Paint the pineapple leaves with leaf green gel food color.
- Color the stamens of both flowers with peach and orange gel food colors.
- Paint the flowers using poppy red and pink gel food colors.
- Add some finishing touches with white gel food color.