JuliaMUsher's video: Summer Botanical Series: Clematis Cookie

** NEW! LIVE ONE-ON-ONE MENTORING SESSIONS WITH JULIA ON SUPERPEER! ** MORE INFO HERE: https://superpeer.com/juliamusher! SPECIAL 20% LAUNCH DISCOUNT FROM AUGUST 1-8, 2020! Just use the coupon code JULIACHAT at checkout! Hi, all! You might remember that I launched a spring botanical cookie series a while back. Well, today I’m returning to add a few summertime flowers to the mix, starting with this striking clematis climbing up a royal icing trellis! As a big-time clematis grower and lover, I couldn’t think of a more suitable flower for me to replicate! In this video, I show how to make every single royal icing piece (17-plus) that goes into this cookie. Along the way, I provide valuable tips about when to use acetate (versus parchment paper) when making contoured royal icing transfers, and how to control their degree of curvature and the definition of overpiped details. 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 MY MOST COMMONLY USED TOOLS: Many are here in my Amazon store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/juliamusher OTHER SPECIALTY TOOLS: Bakers Tools Store’s “Vintage Plaque Frame Cookie Cutter”: https://tinyurl.com/yxr7zlx7 Designer Stencils’ “Quatrefoil Miniprint Cake Stencil”, for trellis: https://tinyurl.com/y8sscclk (I masked off and used a small 1 7/8” W x 4 7/8” L section of this stencil.) Designer Stencils’ “Small Stripe Cake Stencil”, for trellis side slats: https://tinyurl.com/y29qgchu Assorted PVC and cardboard tubes with diameters ranging from 7/8” to 1 7/8”, 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 RELATED RECIPES: Gingerbread Cookie: https://www.juliausher.com/blog/more/cutout_cookie_gingerbread Royal Icing: https://www.juliausher.com/blog/more/royal_icing COOKIE/ROYAL ICING TRANSFER SHAPES AND SIZES: Cookie: Any cutter between 4 and 5 inches will work well, but the plaque I used in the video (link above) was about 4” W x 5 1/2” L Big petals: 3/8” W x 1” L, shaped over 1 5/8”- to 1 7/8”-diameter tubes, depending on curvature desired Small petals: 1/8” W (or less) x 7/16” to 1/2” L, shaped over 7/8”- to 1 1/4”-diameter tubes, depending on curvature desired Centers: 1/4” W x 3/8” T, piped with generic round tip; then lines piped on top with small opening in parchment paper cone, equivalent to PME or round tip Vines: 2 1/2” to 5” in length, piped with both Ateco and PME .5 round tips Buds: Big ones piped with Cooper star tip; small ones piped with generic round tip Leaves: Sizes ranging from 1/4” W x 3/4” L to 1” W x 1 1/2” L, wrapped around 7/8”- to 1 5/8”-diameter tubes, depending on curvature desired (NOTE: Download my petal and leaf photo-template here: https://tinyurl.com/y68sxweo) AIRBRUSH COLORINGS: For small inner petals: AmeriMist Deep Pink For big outer petals: Custom mix of AmeriMist Violet and Electric Purple (about 1:1) For flower centers: Custom mix of AmeriMist Violet and Electric Purple (about 1:1) For leaves and vines: Custom mix of AmeriMist Avocado and Electric Green (about 1:1) For buds: Custom mix of AmeriMist Violet and Electric Purple (about 1:1) ROYAL ICING COLORINGS* AND CONSISTENCIES: White: Thick flooding consistency for small petals (optional), stenciling consistency for trellis, beadwork consistency for dots on flower center, and “glue” consistency for assembly Pale Deep Pink: Thick flooding consistency for small petals Medium Deep Pink: Beadwork consistency for dots on trellis Pale Regal Purple: Thick flooding consistency for big petals Dark Purple: Custom mix of AmeriColor Violet and Electric Purple (about 1:1), beadwork consistency for dots on cookie edges Light Green: Custom mix of AmeriColor Avocado and Electric Green (about 1:1), thick piping consistency for vines and buds, and thick flooding and outlining consistencies for leaves Medium Moss Green: Thick piping consistency for flower center Yellow-Green: Custom mix of Lemon Yellow and Avocado (more yellow than green); outlining consistency for lines on top of flower center *I used AmeriColor liqua-gel concentrated colorings, except for Chefmaster Moss Green for the flower centers TO HANG OUT WITH ME ON THE WEB: My site/blog: https://www.juliausher.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/j6nm6te Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliamusher/ Twitter: https://twitter.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