Decorated cactus cookies for Valentine’s day – Cookie decorating for everyone

hello welcome Marlin here I hopeeveryone had a nice ChristmasI can’t believe January’s already goneI’ve been busy with some houserenovations but I managed to crank out acouple of Valentine’s Day cookies we’regoing to start with this adorable cactuscookie you’ll find the cutterinformation in the description box hereI’m just quickly demonstrating how Idraw my designs I screenshot the cutterand then I can draw on top and get thelines exactly and kind of create mydesign and once I’ve got my designI can move on to the actual decoratingprocess starting off the cookie withsome black outlines I’ve got a tip listbag and I’m not outlining the flower I’mgoing to leave that and I did add somekind of rough guidelines to help me outfor thisand you can just run through this let itdry a little bit and then you’ll be ableto come in and flood your sections whenyou’re working with an outline you’reicing can be much runny err it’ll smoothout faster as well the outline holds theicing so you don’t have to have athicker icing so that it doesn’t falloff the cookie it has this kind ofbarrier a dam that stops it from fallingoff the cookie and there we go there arethe lines I’m ready to fill in the greensections as you can see there are threecolors there I’ve got a darker versionkind of the same color and then just acompletely different color for theleaves and I’m just going to switch mycookie here on the little turntable andI’m stopping where the flower wouldstart there’s no a perimeter or linethey’re holding the icing but it’s thickenough that it’s not getting away andI’m just quickly filling this in heremaking sure to connect to the blackperimeter and being careful to to notspill over that vein in the middlelike so and now grabbing my dark greento create a bit of shading here underthis arm and sometimes you likeguidelines but when you’re at it theydon’t make sense anymore so you canalways tweak I had added oh darn it Icovered the black line there okay andnow connect to the darker color so thatthe seam fades away and we’re just goingto fill all this arm in there and let’sget everything connected to the blackline and I’m just going to shake it tosmooth it out and now moving to theother sideso and thenI’m just kind of rounded in herefilling all this in again with the shakethat’s it and now we can fill in thelarger area again with the shading overhere on this sidemy black line got hidden a bit there soI’m just fixing thatand I forgot to pull this here into thislittle corner and there it is we’regoing to let this dry a little bitbefore moving on like all cookiesthere’s so many ways to finish off adesign I just went with thisit’s very fiddly I’m not gonna lie butif you’re only making a few and it’slike a special gift and you really likeit well you can replicate this so I’mstarting off with an ivory line a wigglyline and then I’m placing 1 by 1 littleheart sprinkles like I said a veryfiddly process only for for those thatyou love a very very much because it’svery long to pick up each one andposition it just getting the tweezers toclamp on to these little sprinkles isproving to be trickyand I’m working a little sections at atime because the line dries by the timeas you can see here I’m trying to pickup this darn thing and by the time I getthem on now I mess the line and by thetime I get them on the line is dry andnow I’m going to go over here on thisoneand[Music]I’m gonna do two on this side here theymeet up at the center for this arm andagain positioning my little sprinklesone by one if the cookies dry you couldjust like randomly sprinkle them andthey were they’re not gonna stick onother stuff but if you’re very kind ofparticular about where you want yourstuff to land you’re probably gonna haveto do it with tweezers there and now thecenter part of the cookie the wider thegap between the lines the fewer linesyou’ll need so factor that in when youadd them they still look cute whenthey’re wider spacedI’m staggering the hearts when when Iadd the next row you see already notsticking already I know I have to pressit inas I move along making this design I’mmaking the lines wider and wider I’vegone from six to four I don’t find thatit looks less cute with with four linesacross and it’s saving me placing thesehearts a bit and there and now I’mgrabbing some stiff icing with a petaltip and I’m adding my flowerrotating the turntable Mara I’m adding afew sprinkles while the icing is wetthey’re to the middle and then a littlepearl in the middle of that to finish itoff and there is my little cactus in myoriginal sketch I had written on thecookie but I thought it looked too busywith my ivory lines there so I’ve optedto wrap them and add the message on alittle card attached to the ribbon Ithink that’s going to be cuter here aresome fun ideas should you be making somecactus cookies this Valentine’s Day Ihope you enjoyed the video if you haveany questions be sure to post them inthe comments I’ll do my best to answerand if you did enjoy the video give it 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