I have various people I like to give fancy cookies to on Valentine’s Day, and I have some heart shaped cookie cutters. Lately I’ve been fascinated by sugar lace, which is an edible lace embellishment for cakes and cookies made from a mixture of sugar and gums to keep it flexible. I decided to design a custom lace mold in Illustrator to fit my cookie molds.
First, here’s the cookies with lace and modeling chocolate embellishments:
I think they came out great! The mold for the lace was made by engraving one of those smooth silicone baking mats. The best way I found to make the lace was to get some of that edible inkjet printable paper, cut a piece the approximate size of the mold, get it wet until it softens to a paste, and squeegee it into the mold. Let dry then repeat. The resulting lace is quite sturdy.
The hubby is not all that keen on hearts but loves guitars, so I made a guitar shaped lace for him:
Edit: forgot to say that if you try this, be sure to rub a thin coat of vegetable shortening into the mold before adding the sugar paste, or you’ll never get it out of there without tearing it.
Those are too pretty to eat. Thanks for the info about your process. I had no idea there was such a thing as edible inkjet printable paper, although I guess any paper can be edible as many kindergartners have proven.
Those are definitely stunning! I bet they could win local bakeoffs unless someone started using them as architectural gingerbread in gingerbread houses.
In my freading I have come across several edible rice papers but this seems heavier. I wonder if it was soaked in sugar corn starch and baking powder if each one could be different and puffed up a bit?
