opening music we are going to be using this wreath cutter this cutters from coppergifts.comi've traced it and created a template here now you can see the grinch is in themiddle of the wreath, i tried to incorporate him into the design make it look a little bit more composed now we're going to create
are stencil to transfer the design tothe cookie to do that i'm using here and embroideryhoop some very fine mesh which you lay on topof the hoop and then you place this on top the design in question that youwant to transfer and then with some royal icing we'regoing to trace this out doesn't matter what colour icing whatever you have left we'resimply going to be piping onto the mesh
i am going to do the bow as well here are my cookies i baked them and now they're cooled i've got some royal icing here that i've added some lemon juice to make it more runny and i'mapplying it on the cookie with a paintbrush i'm gauging where my designs is going to be now here i need to cover where the the grinch is going to be i'm gonna leave about half an inch withnothing. like that probably one of the easiest ways to apply
icing to a cookie and this base coat dries very quickly so you can runthrough your your batch very fast here's the cookie the surface is dry i've got mytransfer that i made earlier with the mesh and we're gonna lay that on the cookiesurface here we go and now we're just going tomark our lines you air brushed the surface and yourcharacter
and there's our outline you see, so that we can pipe thecharacter and we've got that first line here that was transferred from the mesh very easyto follow we're doing the whole bow as one beingmass and then we're gonna come back and justdo the two loops so that their higher up from the ribbon tail, we're just gonna flood this right away cuz i don't want anyseparation between
the outline and flood line there we go, now using a needle tool to smooth out the icing once i've got it pretty much good i can take the cookie and just shakethe cookie and this smooths the surface of the icing as you can see, i've got blackroyal icing now and i'm going to be outlining the grinch.when you're working on a small cookie like this
the lines look quite big so with a 1.5tip it's not too bad you can get some detail without the lines looking super fathalf the line gets hidden when you flood and the cookie for example the inside of the hat here willhide half of this black line. now here i can'treally make out my my lines so i'm just looking at theoriginal up there the hat trim looks like a cloud just doing scallops, there we go.
and now his collar fur there his face neck now for his nose i'm just filling in hisnose black and later i am going to come in and create a 3d nose in the green
it'll be sticking out a little bit you'll see when i'm done once we flood all this the nose will be on top at the black andit'll look like a little bit more two-dimensional i forgot the lines here i flooded his hat & coat coming in now with my red there we go and using my needle tool
push my icing to touch the edges nowwe're gonna do his his coat here and i'm just piping on line against the black one just like that now i am going to grab a paintbrush just going to pull the icing down we're going to be piping some leaves on the wreath this smooths down the surface for the edge decoration you can pick it up and give it a shake
alright an now we are gonna do the bow here the center of the bow looking at that design here, once thats crusted will dothe two outer sections now i'm working on hiseyes i'm just filling in this section here using the yellow colour now grabbing my red with a very small tip
and i'm just doing the center for hiseyes you can shake that to smooth it out working on bow you do the first loop up here, flood that now grab your black icing right away and then a dot here and here with your needle tool create a tear shape shack the
tear shaped you can shake the cooking to get the ripples out now do the other side there we go and flood that be sure to wipe the end of your needle before you put it in the icing or you will get it messed up coming along, he is slowly coming to life his hat now, as we flood the sections the black lines get more narrow
you are better to do it this way rather than piping on top of the character creating a fat outline this takes away from your design not to mention if you're not perfect atpiping you know it will really show this way your lines are not super apparent this technique camouflages imperfect lines now we're filling in his his neck andface i'm using electric green by americolour lets start with his neck, i have a very small tip
a pme 1.5 the holes are small and i want tomaintain control you don't want the green to seep over the black line and mess up your design you see by doing his nose black there i know where to come back after anddraw is nose i'll fill that area later with this green icing
my icing is just soft enough to heal but not soft enough to flow freely i like to keep my icing on the stiff side so i am the one deciding where it goes if your icing is too runny it will decide where it goes, gravitywill decide you're going to end up with a sloppy finish product, shack him out and there he is. i'm gonna wait till hecrusts and then i'll come back
and do his nose what i am doing is 2 dots on either side here is a finished nose creating his nostril letting that crust and now i'mcoming in and doing a bigger dot on top as far as his eyebrows go i think i'll skip it to not mess his face up with a fat line i'm thinking i'm either gonna paint themon our draw them on i don't wanna mess up the clean designthat i have when you're working on small cookieslike this kinda hard to do stuff like
eyelashes. what i've decided to do it makea green line on top of his eye here a big tear shape i will paint on that after in marker he needs a brow since he is supposed tolook mean now we're going to work on theactual wreath i'm using leaf green and i've gotstar tip and we're going to work our way aroundthe cookie you can finish off for wreath with either a leaf tip really anything you havehere i've got a star
and all i'm doing is swirls around a thecookie like you would do on a cupcake make sure your icing is stiffenough to hold a swirl or else it will just fade away rotate yourcookie direction you're working to facilitatethings sometimes just a little shift will make your life easier now if you let this crust a littlebit you can come back after for the second row to keep them a little bit more separatehere's my second row
keep them small don't crowd your character or else he'll get lost in the icing especially since thisparticular character is green you don't want to crowd him while that is wet grab your red icing and add some berries i'm doing clusters and threes no right or wrong just stagger them around
by using the start tip to make the swirls you'll have less breakage if youuse your leaf tip the leaves look nice they stick out a little bit but they can break. if you are planning on shipping or gifting these cookies you don't want them to arrive with pieces broken off this wreath design isa good way to incorporate a character you could put a my little pony in the centre if you wanted put to the characters from south park youname it you could do it using the imagetransfer technique
you won't have a problem draw your character the little berries add to this design, here he is all that's missing are a few eyelashes and he's done. this part is notnecessary you don't wanna take that chance okaygot black air brush colour and a very very fine brush holding my hand tosteady myself trying to
and then gently draw on the lashes it is up to you if you want to risk it. but you could mess up yourcookie and the people who receive it don'tnotice that there's eyelashes missing. here he is is closing music