PERSONALIZED PLACECARDS

Consider this the 101 of Lettering on Cookies class. Part One. Simple lettering and spacing. If you can write, you can letter onto cookies. Simple. How special it could be to sit down to a dinner table with an edible personalized place card? Your name, your guest's, your monogram. How fun. And you can eat it after dinner... but make sure you take a picture first!

This is what you will need-

Gift Tag Cookie Cutter...Link here.

Edible  Food Marker...Link here.

Sponge
Parchment Paper
Straight Pin
Printed/Hand Drawn Paper with Fonts/or Names/or Monograms

Shortbread Cookie-
1 C. + 3 Tbs. Unsalted butter
1 C. Powdered Sugar
2 Tbs. Vanilla
2 1/2 C. Flour

Piping-
2 1/2 C. Powdered Sugar

1 Egg White

1 Tbs. Vanilla Extract

1 1/2 T. French Vanilla Non-Dairy Creamer (Liquid Form)

Flooding-

3 C. Powdered Sugar

2 Egg Whites

1 Tbs. Vanilla Extract

2 Tbs. French Vanilla Non-Dairy Creamer (Liquid Form)

Use shortbread recipe to make dough. Refrigerate dough for two hours or overnight. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Roll dough out and cut with tag cookie cutter.

Place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.

Use a plastic straw to make a hole at the top of the cookie.

Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until edges just turn golden.

For detailed directions (and visuals) on piping and flooding go to nowthatyourarehome.blogspot.com and search "Rainy Day Cloud Cookies". It makes decorating cookies so easy.

Once the cookies have cooled, outline each cookie with piping frosting with a number 3 tip.

Fill the cookies in with the flooding frosting using a plastic squeeze bottle. You may have to "tap" the cookie on the counter after flooding to even out the frosting or to remove air bubbles.

Let cookies dry two days. The frosting needs to harden. You can place them in a air tight plastic container/bag or lay out overnight and cover with a cloth, then place in an airtight plastic bag.

Again, make frosting for piping.

Print out names or monograms. You can also free hand letters if you like.

Place the letter/name on top of a sponge.

Place a layer of parchment paper on top of letter.

Use a straight pin to make holes in the parchment, following the lines.

Remove parchment paper from sponge, center and place on top of cookie.

Run the edible marker over the holes.

Remove parchment paper.

Pipe with a number 3 or 4 tip over the dots on the cookie.

Print or freehand names and pipe names on cookies. The nice thing about printing the names to use, it will give you perfect spacing between and perfect height for all the letters. You can choose any font you like!

One for everyone......

Tie with a ribbon and attach to a napkin...

A sweet welcome to your table, an unforgettable moment...