Quatrefoil Cookies

Are you guys ready for a week of fun cookies?

I am SO excited to be teaming up with the great Callye of “The Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle.”

If you are a cookie fan, I’m sure you know that her work is absolutely the best! Here are a few reasons why Callye is at the top of my list of inspiring cookie decorators:

1. She gives great step by step tutorials on darling cookies.

2. The girl thinks outside the box and comes up with some genius holiday inspiration!

3. She has a facebook page where she shares lots of inspiration and frankly cracks my up!

4. She shares more than just sugar cookie recipes. I must try these!

5. Ummm… Look at her cookie cutter collection. Now you want to be her best friend too, right?

6. I could go on, and on, but you just need to go check out her blog.

Well, I’ve enjoyed getting to know Callye and “talking cookie” with her. It is fun to chat with someone else who’s brain just immediately converts things into cookies. We are both pinterest fans and love to follow the latest blog trends. But how could these decorating, crafting, sewing, fashion blog trends translate into cookie decorating? Well, we set out to find a way! And for the next 5 days we are going to share our pinterest inspired cookies with you!

We are starting out with two of the most popular prints around pinterest and all of blogland! Callye is doing chevron cookies and I am doing quatrefoil cookies.

I started with a plain gray background. Because I’m pretty sure that gray is the new black! And I just can’t get enough of it! Here is a link to a post with my recipes and basics of frosting cookies. But if you follow Callye, or I, you know just how to pipe a border and flood. You are basically professional at it, right? So the base layer has to dry for at least a day. Then, I used my kopykake projector to show the pattern right onto the cookie. I used a stiff icing and a #1 tip to do these slightly different patterns.

But if you don’t have a projector, never fear! It is simple and easy to do with a homemade stencil!

Hey if people can stencil a whole rug or a whole wall, then we can stencil onto a cookie, right?

I made a tiny little stencil by hand, and got out my fine tip food writer. It is important that your base layer is nice and hard because you put a bit of pressure on it when you hold the stencil in place.

I started in the top, middle. Then went straight down from there.

After I did a row, I started on the next.

I worked my way across one side, then turned the cookie around and did the other side.

Then, because you are a glutton for cookie punishment, you go over your pattern with some icing!

You could keep it exactly how it was with the pattern in edible ink,

but here is an example of how it looks in comparison to a #1 and #2 tip.

For more quatrefoil inspiration, click here to see a quatrefoil pinterest board.

And for Chevron inspiration, you MUST go see Callye’s post!

Sweet Sugar Belle’s Chevron inspired cookies!

16 Comments

Kalleen at Second Street on September 6, 2011 at 12:13 am

You always amaze me Ashleigh. Those cookies are too cute to eat. I serioulsy wonder if you ever have a hard to watching people take a bite out of all that hard work?

Mrs. Nolan on September 6, 2011 at 12:57 am

I know you don't know me, and I'm not even sure how I came across your blog, but I love it and I have had it bookmarked for awhile now. I was dying to try some royal icing cookies. They came out beautiful. I let them dry over night, but in the morning they were sticky, so I let them dry another 24 hours and they were finally dry, but when I put them in a bag with a ribbon, they became sticky and they were a mess. It was like they didn't even dry. I don't want to waste too much of your time, but did I do something wrong? Thanks!

CJ on September 6, 2011 at 1:03 am

Soooo cool!

Mindy on September 6, 2011 at 3:31 am

Loooooooovvvvvvvveeeee! This is so awesome!

Stacey on September 6, 2011 at 4:23 am

Oh my! I didn't think your cookies could get any more gorgeous. I really don't think I could eat these-they are too gorgeous. I agree that gray is the new black-love it!

cookies and cups on September 6, 2011 at 11:45 am

Wow, that looks like a LOT of work, but OH so gorgeous!!

Raina on September 6, 2011 at 11:54 am

Beautiful cookies!

The Partiologist on September 6, 2011 at 12:49 pm

They turned out beautifully!

Giselle on September 6, 2011 at 1:39 pm

Love it!

Susie on September 6, 2011 at 4:50 pm

Holy Moly! These are fantastic!

~Bekah on September 16, 2011 at 3:27 am

LOVE!!! Quatrefoils are my sorority symbol (Phi Mu)! Beautiful!!

Debra on October 27, 2011 at 11:38 pm

Just wanted to let you know that these cookies were featured on the Diva Entertains blog yesterday… THANKS!!

http://blog.divaentertains.com/2011/10/cookies-cookies-and-more-cookies/

crazy cakes on March 6, 2013 at 2:30 am

have just come accross your page and think it is fantastic xx new fan

Ashleigh on March 18, 2013 at 5:48 am
Thanks so much! I'm off to check out crazy cakes! 🙂
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Carmen on May 22, 2013 at 3:30 am

¡¡¡Hola!!!Ayer por esas casualidades te descubrí y me tienes fascinada con tu trabajo, es maravilloso. Te felicito eres fantástica y me has impresionado.
Te saludo desde Chile

Pretties and Pastries on May 23, 2014 at 7:16 am

These are absolutely beautiful! Thank you for this… I have been wanting to do quatrefoil cookies forever and now I will get the chance.