….. using the fantastic LissieLou cutter and embossing sets!
Making cake toppers and decorated cookies has never been easier – simply choose your design, cut out, emboss, and decorate to suit the theme of your party or occasion. In this tutorial we will show you step by step how to create a rocket cookie cake topper but once you know the technique, you can apply it to any shaped LissieLou cutter and embossing set.
We used the Sattina vanilla biscuit mix which is perfect for cutting out and baking biscuits as the biscuit dough holds its shape perfectly when baked. A 500g tub will make approximately 15-18 biscuits using the LissieLou cutters and the instructions are easy to follow as you simply add water, a little butter, mix and bake.
Handy Tips Use butter at room temperature or you can grate the butter into the mix if using straight from the fridge. Chill the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes before rolling and cutting out.
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Decorating With Sugarpaste And Edible Paint
Once your cookies have cooled, they are ready for decorating. Sprinkle a little cornflour or icing sugar over your work top then roll out some sugarpaste to about 5mm in thickness. Position the embosser onto the icing, press down, and then carefully remove to leave the rocket design embossed into the icing.
Position the rocket cutter over the embossed design and press down firmly. Remove the excess icing from around the cutter to leave a perfectly cut out rocket.
Attach to the biscuit with a thin layer of your favourite jam.
Handy Tips Choose a seedless jam and spread over the biscuit leaving a 5mm gap all around the edge so that it does not ooze out when the icing is applied.
To paint the rocket silver, mix some Sugarflair satin silver lustre dust with a little rejuvenator spirit or water. Using a fine brush, carefully paint the rocket design following the raised pattern on the icing then leave to dry for at least 10 minutes.
Handy Tip It is really important that you use a good quality fine paint brush!
Using this technique, you can decorate the rocket and all other LissieLou shapes in the colours of your choice – from black and white to bright and colourful like the rocket and spaceman featured on our space cake.
Creating Icing Toppers For Cakes
To make icing toppers instead of cookies, use the same technique but with modelling paste instead of sugarpaste so that the icing will set hard and the toppers will be able to stand by themselves.
Attach to your cake with a little Royal icing and finish the look with a scattering of stars and edible glitter!
