Make Mini Garden Seedling Cookies

Spring is for gardens, and what is cuter than a garden of cookie seedlings growing in chocolate cake "dirt"?!? These are a treat to make AND eat! Kids and adults alike will love these cute cookies that make a great centerpiece at a garden party. My favorite thing about this set is that you only use the one cookie cutter to make several slightly different shapes! And bonus--it's a cookie cutter flip, meaning that we use a cutter that isn't meant for this particular purpose, but which we already had on hand anyways. Let's get started!

Mini Mermaid Tail Cookie Cutter

Paint Palette

Egg Cartons

Gel colors: Gourmet Green (stems), Positively Purple (turnip), Outrageously Orange (Carrot)

Airbrush colors: Ivory Towers, Positively Purple, Totally Brown, Whipped White

Edible Art Paint in Red

Food safe paint brushes

PME Supatube Leaf Tip 51

1 baked and cooled sheet of chocolate cake or brownies

Extra-large piping tip or extra-small round cutter (for cutting the cake/brownies into small rounds)

Mini cupcake liners

Popsicle sticks

Here are some other root vegetables for inspiration:

Carrot

Flood the body of your carrots using orange royal icing. Allow to dry, and use a thin paintbrush with a small amount of orange airbrush color to draw on some lines to give the carrot dimension. Use a PME 51 piping tip and some stiff green royal icing to pipe on some leafy stems.

Radish

Flood the body of the radish with white royal icing. Use a paintbrush and some red Sweet Sticks EdibleArt paint to paint the body of the radish, remembering to leave some white at the bottom. Pipe some simple stems using stiff green royal icing in a tipless bag cut with a small hole; switch that same icing to a bag with a PME 51 piping tip to add leaves.

Turnip

Just like the radish, flood the body of your turnip with white royal icing. Airbrush the body with ivory airbrush color (or just flood in ivory, if you prefer to not airbrush). Allow to dry, and then use a mix of white, purple, and brown airbrush color to make a beautiful earthy paint color that you can use to paint your turnips. Make sure to leave some of the ivory showing through--no need to be too "perfect" with this painting. Add some thin purple stems of stiff royal icing and then pipe on the leafy greens (just like with the radish).

Parsnip

Again, flood the body of the parsnip with white royal icing and airbrush it with ivory airbrush color (or flood with ivory royal icing). Once completely dry, use Ivory Towers airbrush color and a thin paintbrush to add some lines to our parsnip. Use the same stiff green icing and PME 51 piping tip to add leaves, and you're all done!