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I Heart Mom Tattoo Cookies

May 7, 2014 by The Simple, Sweet Life 8 Comments

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mother's day tattoo cookies

I’ve been doing two things in my free time as of late: catching up on this season of Ink Master and designing Mother’s Day cookies. Do you see where this is going? My Pappo and I have always found tattoos fascinating and I’m constantly amazed by the things tattoo artists can do. I’ll admit, I have a few tattoos of my own (and my Pappo has quite a few more than me), but my Mum is pretty old fashioned when it comes to this sort of thing. So I was sitting there, one night, watching Ink Master and I thought sarcastically to myself “Oh, I could get Mum a ‘I heart Mum’ tattoo for Mother’s Day. She’d looooove that!” And then the idea hit me: Mom tattoo cookies! They’re the perfect (pain free) way to say “I heart you Mom!” this Mother’s Day!

I Heart Mom Tattoo Cookies

What You’ll Need:

Cookies
A batch of royal icing
Food gel coloring in red, black, yellow, orange, green, and blue
Piping bags (and tips if you use them)
Toothpicks/skewers
Black food marker

You’ll want to start by making all of your cookies (I made chocolate cookies for this set). I made two designs using a large heart cutter and another design that I frankenstein’d together with three cutters. To make that last one, you’ll need a small heart cutter, a small flower cutter, and a small rectangular cutter. Have a look at the picture below to see where I placed the cutters. Don’t worry about cutting the inside of the cookie; that’ll be covered with icing and you can just press it back together prior to baking.

heart tattoo cookie cutout

Once your cookies are baked and cooled, you can start decorating them! I’m not great at free-handing my icing, so I used a black edible marker to outline my design on each cookie. After you’ve outlined your design (if you’re going to), you can pipe the outline with black piping icing. You’ll want a little bit wider outline for this (#1.5- #2 tip) as the flood icing will cover some of it on either side.

creating cookie design

creating cookie design

outlining cookie design

outlining cookie design

Once you have your outline done, you can start filling in with your flood icings (I don’t wait for the outline to dry, and so far I’ve never had any issues with color bleeding). You can really do that however you like and however is most comfortable for you, but if you’re looking for a method, I usually like to work top to bottom so I don’t get my hand in wet icing as I’m working. As you’re filling in your designs, you can use a toothpick or wooden skewer to work you icing into place.

flooding cookies

flooding cookies

Once your cookies are completely dry (I like to wait overnight for this step), you can start adding your details and lettering with a black edible food marker. If you don’t have a black food marker, you can also use a small brush and some black gel food coloring to paint your details on.

adding detail

adding detail

Let your cookies dry completely before packaging.

mom tattoo cookies

mother's day cookies

Happy baking!

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Comments

  1. Dee says

    May 9, 2014 at 1:42 am

    These are cute! I think any mom would enjoy a bunch of these tattoos! 🙂

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      May 11, 2014 at 11:50 am

      Thank you! I’m glad you liked them! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Nan a.k.a Granny Fabulosa says

    May 9, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    This made my whole day! I’m also a big Ink Masters fan. I can’t tell you how clever, fun and creative this idea is! But some of your line work is crooked, and your shading is a mess, and… JUST KIDDING! 🙂

    Reply
    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      May 11, 2014 at 11:51 am

      Hahaha as I was working on them I was thinking to myself “These would never make it past the judges!” 😛

      Reply
  3. Carmody says

    May 11, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Love these cookies!

    Reply
    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      May 12, 2014 at 7:04 pm

      So glad you liked them! 🙂

      Reply

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