JuliaMUsher's video: Summer Botanical Series: Plumeria Cookie

** NEW! LIVE ONE-ON-ONE MENTORING SESSIONS WITH JULIA ** MORE INFO HERE: https://superpeer.com/juliamusher! Hi, everyone! My botanical series continues in this video with the tropical plumeria, or frangipani, made completely of contoured, individually piped and airbrushed royal icing transfers! Naturally, I don’t have any plumeria growing in my Missouri yard, so I can’t say the inspiration came from my actual surroundings. My best explanation for this idea is that the corona-quarantine has me feeling a bit like I’m stranded on my own personal island. And, if there is one thing that would brighten my day on this island, it would be these strikingly simple, but stunning plumeria! I hope they brighten your day too!  As an extra in this video, I also explore the use of mesh stencils and how they differ from conventional Mylar ones. INSPIRED BY MANU'S WATER LILIES: https://cookieconnection.juliausher.com/blog/made-by-manu-royal-icing-water-lily-and-lily-pad-transfers RELATED VIDEOS: How to Make Royal Icing (with Consistency Adjustments): https://tinyurl.com/nx7xhmq Spring Botanical Series - Dogwood Cookie: https://youtu.be/76sOqZ42HCY Spring Botanical Series - Snowdrop Cookie: https://youtu.be/loRA2opHuo8 Summer Botanical Series - Clematis Cookie: https://youtu.be/ra6bJraZgnw Summer Botanical Series – Hibiscus Cookie: https://youtu.be/x7XVcSe9q_c SPECIALTY TOOLS: Cookie cutter: The one used in this video was custom-designed for me and is not available for sale, but any 4- to 4 ½-inch cutter will do; one of my go-to cutters is this “Corner Plaque”: https://tinyurl.com/yxdk9gly Evil Cake Genius “Avalon Palm Leaves Double Barrel Mesh Stencil”: https://tinyurl.com/y6hk4esn (I masked off the stencil and used just a small portion of it) My “Jungle” Dynamic Duos Background Stencil: https://tinyurl.com/y5vnlmxa (as a less expensive alternative to the mesh stencil above) Stencil Genie (or frame for holding stencils): https://tinyurl.com/y4o73o99 Assorted PVC and cardboard tubes with diameters ranging from 7/8” to 2 1/8”, for contouring royal icing transfers; I sourced all of my tubes from my local hardware store or “harvested” them from rolls of spent wrapping paper and paper towels Mini fan brush (size 20/0): https://tinyurl.com/y284cg6w RELATED RECIPES: Gingerbread Cookie: https://www.juliausher.com/blog/more/cutout_cookie_gingerbread Royal Icing: https://www.juliausher.com/blog/more/royal_icing ROYAL ICING TRANSFER SHAPES AND SIZES: Flower petals for open plumeria: About 3/8” W x 5/8” L, shaped crosswise over 7/8”- to 1”-diameter tubes Flower petals for buds: About 3/8” W x 5/8” L, piped on parchment paper (to avoid “cratering” or pitting of icing as it dries), folded and taped on one end for more open petals, and on both ends for more closed petals “Stemlets” or top spray at top of stem: About 1 1/2” W to 2” W x 1” T, piped on parchment paper with Wilton round tip; then immediately shaped crosswise over 1 5/8”-diameter tube Stems: 3” L to 5” L, piped on parchment paper with Wilton round tip Leaves: Piped in various sizes ranging between 1 1/8” L to 1 7/8” L x 3/8” W to 1 1/2” W; then immediately shaped in different directions over 1 3/4”- to 2 1/8”-diameter tubes (NOTE: Download my petal and leaf photo-template here: https://tinyurl.com/y5eb2bar) AIRBRUSH COLORINGS: For flower petals for open plumeria: AmeriMist Lemon Yellow (for top center, about midway up petal); Electric Purple (for the one edge without piped outline); and Orange (for very top center, in dead-center of flower) For bud petals: AmeriMist Lemon Yellow (for inside); Electric Purple (for outer edges) For fondant buds: AmeriMist Electric Purple (along one side) For stems and stemlets (top spray): AmeriMist Avocado For leaves: AmeriMist Electric Purple for center vein; AmeriMist Avocado (for back and top edges; also for painting veins) For cookie background: AmeriMist Electric Purple, Electric Green, and Avocado (for leaves), and Spectrum Flow Sky Blue or another Sky Blue lightened with white (for sky) ROYAL ICING COLORINGS AND CONSISTENCIES: White: Thick flooding and outlining consistencies for petals and bud petals; thick “glue” consistency for assembly Pale AmeriColor Fuchsia or Electric Purple: Thick flooding and outlining consistencies for flower and bud petals (as an alternative to white) Pale Green Blend: Custom mix of AmeriColorAvocado and Electric Green (about 1:1); thick flooding and outlining consistencies for leaves; piping consistency for stems and stemlets (top spray) TO HANG OUT WITH ME ON THE WEB: My site/blog: http://www.juliausher.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/j6nm6te Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliamusher/ Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/juliamusher/ CREDITS: Music by: Kevin MacLeod, http://www.incompetech.com Videography/Editing by: Two5:7North (https://www.two57north.com), Grant and Ashleigh Murphy