These are pretty cool. I’m tooting the horn, yes. But, for real…they’re pretty ahhhh-mazing!
I mean come on!!! You can actually play with your food! Who wouldn’t want to receive a cookie that’s also a game!? Hello? FUN!
The first you need to do is draw yourself a maze template according to the size of your cookie cutter. My heart cookie cutter is approximately 3″ tall x 3 3/4″ wide. I’ll post a photo of my maze drawing for you at the bottom so you can print it out and scale it to your cookie.
I use my tried and true sugar cookie recipe and then covered each cookie in fondant. Remember to use a thin layer of jam or your favourite preserves (or even plain old piping gel) on your cookie so the fondant sticks.
If you’re a freak like me, you can pipe the maze details by free hand. If on the other hand, you want your maze to be just right, place your sketch on top of your fondant covered cookie and using a sharp tool, like a pin, trace over your maze pressing into the cookie. The pressure should be heavy enough so you make the indent marks on the fondant underneath.
This step makes it easier to pipe the lines with royal icing.
Using a round tip #3 (wilton), pipe the maze onto the cookie. Let the icing dry before colouring in the centre heart with edible food colouring markers. The final detail is sticking a heard sprinkle at the starting point and making sure you have little silverettes or other round sprinkles that you can use to roll around the maze.
I know…so cute right?
I don’t know what’s more fun? Playing with these things or eating them. But, as my daughter and her BCF (best cousin forever) always say, “water is boring, eating is more fun!” 😛
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Right click to save the maze template and scale it according to the size of your cookie.
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