I've made quite a few cookies for my little sister over the years.   I’ve made high school and college graduation cookies and house warming and now wedding cookies.  I originally wanted to make these cookie in May for her bridal shower, but I didn't want to hand-cut any cookies.  I enlisted the help of JH Cookie Co to create a custom cookie cutter for these special cookies.

I started by asking my sister to send me a picture of one of her wedding lanterns (pictured below).

The next step was to bring the image into Adobe Illustrator and trace it.  I had to make some modifications as the photograph was not taken straight on.  I used the pen tool within Illustrator to create my drawing.

Next, I sent the drawing off to JH Cookie Co.  They stated they would make some changes to the shape in order to make the cookie cutter more stable, which was fine. Whatever would make the best cutter right.  I sent my image off on May 15th and by May 28th I received a render back from JH Cookie Co.

There were a few changes made but nothing too dramatic.  I had the physical cookie cutter in my possession by June 1st.  That worked out perfect for baking and shipping the cookies to Minnesota.  Once I had the cookie cutter, then it was normal cookie procedure.  I traced the cutter and sketched out what I wanted it to look like.  I referenced back to original photograph to figure out what kind of flowers I was going to use.

I piped all of the flowers using different tips. For the roses I used a 101s. The “s” stands for small. It’s perfect for creating little roses that are the perfect proportion for cookies. For the glass on the lantern I used isomalt. This was the first time I ever used isomalt so there was a bit of a learning curve. I really like the look of the isomalt, but it makes the cookies very hard.