I was just asked to make a lantern on two dozen cookies. I wanted to just make round cookies, ice them with the sunburst efect and draw the lantern on the icing. I can't imagine how to do it! I guess I could use the edible markers; but how do I make that same picture over and over?

You can put the drawing on a clear piece of plastic using a permanent marker. Then trace over it with a thin line of lightly colored piping gel and use it to imprint the design on the cookie. then, you can use the piping gel line as a guide to ice on the design.

does that make any sense?

Good Luck.

Could you make one color picture the size and design you want and then take it to make into an edible image? I now the local cake store near me can make images that would fit right on a single circle cookie, hope this helps.

JoAnnB,
That's a good idea, but will the piping gel harden so I can use the edible marker over it? For that matter, will "Alice's cookie icing" harden so I can use edible markers? Or must I use the Royal icing?

tthardy78, I don't know of any place here that makes edible images; besides, the cookies are for Monday so I have to start making and icing them today (Friday).

Go ahead, ask my why I didn't come to this forum sooner! Answer: I just got the request from the customer a couple of minutes before I posted my question.

Alice's icing hardens some, if you were very gentle with the marker it might work, but I would use royal because it dries faster. Because of your time constraints, I wouldn't worry about it being a bit crunchy.

The gel should go on very lightly onto the icing. And one tracing should work for more than one cookie, making each a bit lighter. If you need to speed the gel drying, you could put it in front of a fan for a few minutes.

If all else fails, you could cut out the design and trace around it, then most of them would be the same enough?