Maybe it's because I'm "an autumn," but I am 100% swooning over this terracotta and teal cookie color combination. These colors speak to my soul. (Also, I always love a little pop of black on cookies.)
I'm meeting a new friend today. She's in 5th grade, and I've heard she wants to learn to bake. I have a feeling we're going to get along just fine. Cookies are always a good "nice to meet you" gift, right?
How to decorate cookies with terracotta and teal royal icing...
While I don't have a step-by-step tutorial for you, let me walk you through how I made these with the colors and recipes I used.
First up, I used my perfect every time vanilla-almond cut-out cookie recipe. It's my go-to for a reason - it's delicious and always bakes up like a dream.
The cookies are decorated with royal icing. Again, this recipe is my go-to. I would love to know how many thousands of cookies I've decorated using it.
For the icing colors, I used:
- AmeriColor Terracotta, I used two shades (you can read more about it on this post I wrote about orange food coloring)
- Teal: I used AmeriColor Peacock with a bit of Midnight mixed in. Peacock is a deeper, richer teal than their regular "teal," and the midnight just deepens it a bit more, but honestly, I'm not sure it made much difference. Peacock is beautiful on its own.
- For the leaves: AmeriColor Laurel
