Nothing says summer like Hawaiian luau cookies. Even though they were made for a party in dry, landlocked Idaho, the Hawaiian shirts, hibiscus flowers, and pastels make it feel like summer on the island.
Hawaiian Luau Icing Techniques
This batch would’ve been a great one to teach a beginner! See if you can spot all the different icing techniques on these Hawaiian luau cookies:
- Wet on wet
- the hibiscus flower pattern of Hawaiian shirt cookies
- the stripe and polka dot detail of the flip-flop cookies
- the color blending of the sunset cookies
- Wet on dry
- the piped shirt details such as the collar and the pockets of the Hawaiian shirt cookies
- the thong of the flip-flop cookies
- Sugar on wet
- the sand of the beach in the sunset cookies
- Royal icing transfers
- the palm tree silhouette of the sunset cookies
- the red royal icing flowers, dropped directly onto a still-wet flooded cookie
Did you know?…
I didn’t have a shirt cookie cutter for the Hawaiian shirt cookies, so I just cut the bottom off of a onesie cookie cutter. The shirts are a little short in the torso, but I would argue that just makes them more endearing.
Originally posted on June 23, 2014
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