You don’t have to travel to take in the view from these plane windows. Because they are cookies and make for a fun evening of cookie decorating (with one caveat).
This set includes four designs, all on oval cookies: a daytime beach, a cloudy sky with a plane wing, farm fields with crop circles, and a mountain landscape with a plane wing.
Plane wing mentioned twice because it’s an icing transfer you can add to just two of the cookies (like I did), to all of the cookies, or none of the cookies. It’s also the one caveat on this “decorate in an evening” statement because the plane wings need to completely dry before you can add them to the cookie designs. Which means you need to make them before you decorate the cookies.
Oval Cookie Cutter
You need a singular cookie cutter for this entire set, an oval! I haven’t done oval cookies before for Iced Kitchen or otherwise, but thought, similar to circles, an oval shaped cutter would be a good addition to a home set.
You have two options for this oval cookie cutter, you can 3D print one using this free design file (this is what I did): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4912154 or you can buy one at Michaels (which is actually my preferred cookie cutter material): https://www.michaels.com/product/oval-cookie-cutter-4-in-by-275-in-b0708-cookiecuttercom-tin-plated-steel-handmade-in-the-usa-415128404874821638
(Either option gives me absolutely no affiliate kickback, I’m just sharing what I’d recommend.)
I actually don’t like 3D printed cookie cutters, but my cutter collection is almost entirely 3D printed.
I find they don’t slice through cookie dough as cleanly as a metal cutter,which leads me wiping tiny little crumbs of dough around my desired shape to try and clean up my cookie edge before baking.
It’s a tiny detail, but when you get into perfecting your decorating, it can be an annoying one.
That said, the ability to print any shape you want makes 3D printing incredibly handy, especially for professionals, and the free file makes this set a lil easier to get into (if you have a 3D printer at your disposal). I have access to a 3D printer through my brother, so that’s what I used. If I didn’t have that, Michaels would have been my option.
Plane Wing Icing Transfers
Half the cookies in this set include a plane wing icing transfer.
The plane wing has a hinge point, a singular line connecting two fragile pieces (we call this a hinge point in stained glass and I think it translates here well). This is the most vulnerable part of the transfer and the most likely to break, it’s where mine broke. Make sure this connecting hinge has the icing blatantly touching to help present breaking.
Decorating Order Recommendation
You can 100% complete this set in an evening, a couple of hours (besides the plane wings!).
Here’s how to approach it:
- Make your icing transfers first (the plane wings for the cloudy sky and mountain cookies) and let them fully dry
- Draw your design on each cookie with an edible pen before you start piping
- Pipe the initial beach and cloud cookies, then come back and add the texture details on each
- Decorate the farm field and mountain cookies
- Come back to finish the window frame on the beach and cloud cookies, then the farm field and mountain cookies
The window frame is the border that pulls everything together and you want the scene inside to “crust over” (become matte and slightly hard to the touch…but I wouldn’t touch it) before you add it.
Supplies
- Brown sugar cookie base
- Royal icing in one consistency: hybrid for everything – follow along with my coloring and consistency video here: https://youtu.be/gCGaPgN_lL0
- Icing colors: white, light blue, blue, beige, green, and grey
- Tipless piping bags
- Toothpick or scribe tool
- Parchment paper for icing transfers
- Edible pen for drawing your design onto each cookie
- Oval cookie cutter (3D print or buy)
Key Takeaways
- The hinge point on the plane wing transfer is fragile. Pipe it carefully and let it fully dry.
- Draw your design on each cookie with an edible pen before you start piping – it makes the whole process smoother.
- Besides the plane wings, this entire set can be decorated in one evening!
You don’t have to look out a plane window to get that plane window view — you can make it! What design would you have included?
Download the free guide and let’s make some travel inspired cookies together!