How To Make Flower Cookies At Home

May 9th, 2022 Posted by Gift Flowers

Looking for new ways to celebrate Mother’s Day? Want to surprise your family? Or maybe you just want to pack a better afternoon lunch for your kids. You should try baking with flowers! Flower cookies are colourful, easy, fun to make and also delicious.

There are so many colours and different patterns you can go for; so much that it’s practically impossible to go wrong. Flower cookies, as mentioned earlier, are quite easy to make. All you need is the recipe for your favourite cookie dough and some edible flowers – and of course your creativity.

 In this article, we will take you step by step through how to bake the best flower cookies ever.

3 TRENDY FLORAL COOKIE THEMES/IDEAS

• Spritz Flower Cookies

The word ‘spritz’ originates from ‘Sprizgeback’. Sprizgeback is a German cookie that tastes crisp, light and buttery just like the spritz cookie. These cookies are made by pushing the dough through a cookie press with holes. A good spritz cookie should taste crisp, slightly sweet and buttery. Spritz flower cookies are arguably the most loved holiday flower cookie.

• Shortbread Flower Cookies

These edible flower cookies are just so simple and easy to pull off. The main two ingredients you need are dough, vanilla butter and powdered sugar. You can also decorate them with chocolate and of course edible flowers.

• Spring Flower Sugar Cookies

These flower cookies are baked with a rose water sugar cookie base and decorated on top with rose water glaze and edible flowers. These cookies are so beautiful that they were even displayed in a French Museum in Paris.

Note that rose water is flavoured water made by dipping rose petals in water or by distilling them in steam.

SIMPLE STEPS TO FOLLOW WHEN BAKING FLOWER COOKIES

• Pick Your Edible Flowers

While all flowers are beautiful, not all flowers are edible. Even among edible flowers, not all edible flowers’ flavours and tastes go well with cookies. So you must carefully pick the perfect flower for your cookies.

However, there are enough edible flowers that are great for cookies. Examples include roses, daisies, dahlias, calendula, pansies etc.

• Get Your Ingredients And Utensils Ready

Start getting your supplies ready early. The ingredients you are going to use depends on the recipe you are using. If you don’t have a favourite cookie recipe, feel free to check out some cookie recipes online.

However, you are going to need a rolling pin, baking sheet, parchment paper or silicone mat, stand mixer, mixing bowl, cookie-cutter, an oven and a place to chill your dough.

• Make The Dough

Making your dough is all about your creativity. If you have a favourite family cookie recipe, then go ahead and use it. But if you don’t, there are a lot of great recipes online that you can try out.

If your cookie dough seems too sticky and wet, then you better chill the dough to ensure the cookie holds its shape and does not spread into puddles.

• Give Your Cookies A Shape

After making your dough, then it’s time to convert it into real cookies and get it ready for baking. There are a lot of shape options you can make with your cookie cutter. A circle is a great idea but you can consider getting cookie cutters with different unique shapes and symbols.

• Add Your Flowers And Bake The Cookies

Gently press the edible flowers you chose earlier on the surface of each cookie. This is the perfect time to get your kids involved. Decorating cookie dough with flowers can turn out to be a lot of fun for kids.

When you’re done, put the cookies in the oven and bake them until they are golden brown. Do not, however, add the flowers before baking if you’re using dried and pressed flowers. Instead, wait to add after baking the cookies.

• Decorate Them Further

This is the time to add your flowers if you’re using dried ones. You can decorate your flowers any way you want personally. You can make a simple sugar glaze and put a damper on each cookie to act as glue sticking the flower to the cookie. You can even decorate your cookie with royal icing. The fun part about decorating flower cookies is the freedom you have to use any techniques you want.

Your flower cookies are ready to be eaten! 🙂

USEFUL TIPS IN FLOWER COOKIE BAKING

1. Don’t forget to line your baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat while shaping your cookies to make removing easy.
2. Make sure to leave a little bit of space between each dough before baking to leave room for spreading.
3. Make sure you allow the cookies to cool after baking and before storage.