Sweet Briar Rose Petal Cookies
 
 
Ingredients
  • Make one batch of your favorite shortbread or sugar cookie, then make some…
  • Icing
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • lots and lots of icing sugar (cups)
  • flavoring (this is also a secret, but feel free to use any...)
  • whole milk
  • Pink Wilton gel food coloring
  • Orchid Pink Pearl Dust
  • Cheap 6 inch (baking) paint brush, 1/4" tip length narrow or flat-tipped
Instructions
  1. Whip the butter until fluffy. Slowly add icing sugar until it thickens. Splash a little milk in and mix. Repeat, adding sugar and milk until the volume of icing you require is achieved. It never hurts to make extra for a little sneaky spoonful every now and then.
  2. Using a toothpick, dip the tip straight down into the gel coloring to pick up a tiny drop (I mean tiny!!). Rub it onto a corner of your icing and mix in. It will take a moment, but soon the color will come out the palest of pinks. If it’s not quite pink enough, add another teensy bit. It’s always easy to add more… add too much and you’re stuck with a garish pink. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! Bright colors are fun too!
  3. Frost your cookies using a knife or off-set spatula. Try to turn the cookie and make one circular swirl of icing, try to leave one or two “swirl” marks from the spatula in the icing (you’ll see what I mean by the photos), in other words, the icing shouldn’t be completely flat. In essence, you’re trying to mimic a rose petal.
  4. Lay your cookies flat in a plastic bag and rest on a cookie sheet then freeze completely.
  5. While frozen, dip your brush into the Pearl Dust ?just a smidgen ? and gently brush along the swirl, beginning on the outside edge. You can add more Pearl Dust as you go. The idea is just to darken areas along and on either side of the swirl so that it creates a rose petal effect.
Notes
It might sound fussy, but it wasn’t… it was definitely fun and creative and I loved the sparkle it gave the cookies. I think this would be such a pretty cookie for a baby shower, bridal shower, wedding, or a little girl’s birthday!
Recipe by Just a Smidgen at https://justasmidgen.com/2012/02/09/sweet-briar-rose-petal-cookies-will-be-at-the-calgary-food-bloggers-bake-sale-this-weekend/