Mountain View Cookie

A gingerbread cookie decorated with a landscape painting featuring white birch trees, a blue sky, and pink and yellow flower details
Kim Simons
Beginner
Learn how to decorate a cookie with a Mountain View landscape using royal icing, edible gel colors, and edible paper flowers.

Supply List

Gingerbread or Sugar Cookies
Royal Icing (Recipe)
Edible gel colors
Edible paper
Small Black Edible Beads
Piping Gel (Clear)
Paper Plates
Spoons
Toothpicks
Cup of Water
Small and Medium Paintbrushes
Scissors
Paper Towels
Small Flower Paper Punches

Instructions

  • Make a sugar cookie or gingerbread using your favorite recipe.
  • Make and color Royal Icing as instructed.
    Bowl with white, blue, green, and orange royal icing for decorating.
  • Spread and blend Royal Icing on the top half of the cookie with a spatula to make the sky.
    Knife spreading blue and white royal icing sky onto a square cookie.
  • Use a small palette knife to add green icing for the grass.
    Knife spreading green royal icing for grass on the cookie.
  • Add trees to the center using a palette knife and a small brush.
    Hand using a brush to add green royal icing trees to the cookie.
  • Spread and blend icing on the bottom half of the cookie to make the field.
  • Add mountains to the top half using a palette knife and a brush.
    Hand detailing the mountain and field scene on the cookie with a brush.
  • Add color to the foreground with a small brush, using a horizontal motion.
  • Add birch trees using a small brush and white icing.
    Hand using a paintbrush to add white birch tree details with icing.
  • Detail the trees and background with black icing.
    Hand adding black royal icing branch details to the birch trees.
  • Make flowers and leaves out of edible paper.
    Hand punching edible paper flowers in pink, purple, and yellow.
  • Assemble using piping gel.
    Hand assembling edible paper flowers with piping gel.
  • Glue the plants to the foreground with icing.
    Hand gluing edible paper flowers to the cookie foreground.

Products Used

• Icing Images: SmArt Sheets (edible paper)
• Artisan Accents: Edible gel colors