This intermediate to advanced cookie decorating class is designed for experienced cookiers ready to take their royal icing skills to the next level through sculpting, piping, texture, and realistic detail. Using moldable and floral consistency royal icing, students will create a stunning 12 in. tropical parrot cookie featuring dimensional feathers, florals, foliage, and hand-painted and airbrushed accents. Students will leave with a completed showpiece cookie, a deeper understanding of moldable and floral royal icing, and the confidence to apply these advanced methods to future cookie sets.

In this class you will:

• Learn how to mix floral-consistency royal icing
• Learn how to mix moldable royal icing to the proper consistency
• Use piping tips to pipe realistic feathers
• Mold a tree branch, parrot face and parrot claws using moldable royal icing
• Pipe palm branches
• Receive a guidebook that includes video recipes for both floral and moldable royal icing
• Learn how to paint a parrot with realistic detail
• Airbrush feathers, florals, foliage, and the background to create depth and dimension
• Pipe a hibiscus flower
• Pipe plumeria flowers
• Learn how to use sculpting tools to shape and manipulate royal icing
• Learn how to manipulate cookies to add layers and dimensional detail
• Enjoy access to a flat-lay photo station, perfect for photographing your finished cookies
• Take home SWAG — many of the materials used in class are yours to keep. Some materials are provided by some amazing sponsors

This class is best suited for intermediate to advanced decorators who are comfortable working with royal icing and are capable of piping. This class is fast paced and involves quite a bit of piping and mixing thick consistencies.