Birthdays are big deals no matter how old you are! If you think about it, age is really only the number of years that the world has been enjoying you. The centerpiece of this cookie set says it all, it’s celebrating another year of you being fabulous. Make someone feel extra special on their birthday by giving them Another Year of Fabulous Cookies cookies.
Supplies Needed for Another Year of Fabulous Cookies
Start with the main attraction, a large fluted plaque cookie with plenty of room to pipe “Another Year of Fabulous” plus some birthday decoration.
First, outline a large plaque cookie with pipe consistency royal icing.Pipe wording on cookie first to ensure that spacing will work out.
Fill large plaque cookie with flood consistency royal icing and set aside to dry.Finally to create a tassel banner, start with a curved line in white. Next, add colored tassels by piping 3 lines fanning out from the string.
Next, we moved on to our filler cookie. You know the small ones that always disappear first:)
Using a small tiered cake cookie, outline the first layer.Next, alternate blue and pink lines for candles in the top layer of the cake.
Immediately fill bottom layer with flood consistency icing.Finish this bite-sized cookie off with flames in the light pink color.
The rectangle plaque cookie is a great shape for a special cookie for the birthday girl or boy.
Using a fluted plaque cookie, pipe around the edges.Near the top of the cookie, pipe a white line for the string. Add tassels to the string making short lines in alternating colors.
Next, fill with flood consistency icing and allow icing to dry.Last but not least, personalize this cookie by piping the name of the birthday girl or boy below the tassel.
Finally, finish off the set with a birthday cake.
Firstly, pipe outline on the first and second layers of a tiered birthday cake cookie.Alternate pink and blue lines on the top of the cake for candles.Finally, finish off candles by piping flames in light pink.
Add flood consistency icing to first layer, allow to set for a few minutes. Then go back and add icing to second layer. This way you’ll see the differentiation in the two layers.Next, pipe and fill cake platter in a contrasting color.
Watch this video to see how we put this Another Year of Fabulous cookie set together:
