Using Two Toning to Make Mother's Day Cookies
How to two -tone Mother's Day Cookies
Two-toning cookies is a simple decorating technique that creates beautiful depth and dimension using just two shades of icing. By pairing a lighter and darker tone of the same colour, you can instantly make floral details, lettering, and layered designs stand out. It’s an easy way to elevate your cookies, add a professional finish, and create eye-catching designs without complicated piping. Perfect for beginners and experienced decorators alike, two-toning is a small detail that makes a big impact.
What You’ll Need
• LissieLou 3D Cookie Stamp
• LissieLou Cookie Cutter
• Food Colouring (2-3 different colours) - we recommend Colour Mill
• LissieLou Edible Pen
• LissieLou Corn Flour Dusting Pouch
• LissieLou Mini Metal Scrapers
Step 1: Prepare your Different coloured fondants
Decide on the colour you want your cookie design to be and pre prepare your fondant. Using a LissieLou cornflour dusting pouch, dust cornflour across your cookie stamp. Adding cornflour is key to ensure the fondant does not stick to the stamp!
Step 2: Start building your layers
Take a small amount of coloured fondant and gently push it into one of the indents. The tip is to not use too much fondant at a time and ensure it doesn’t buldge out of the layer - less in more.
Keep going with each different colour you want by building layers.
Once you have completed all colour, ‘clean’ the edges of our stamp using our LissieLou mini metal scraper (or similar).
Step 3: Prepare your Base Fondant
Lay your stamp face down onto your base fondant. Push down on the all areas of the stamp.
Gently peel the stamp away from the fondant starting at the small tab.
Use your matching cutter to cut the same out. Give the cutter a small ‘wiggle’ to ensure a super clean cut.
Step 4: Cut out using our Cookie Cutter
Use your matching cutter to cut out the shape. The add your fondant to your baked and cooled cookie.
Shop our Mother's Day Range
We have 9 different colours for you to choose from in 4g or 40g pots!
We highly recommend you use food safe paint brushes when applying your edible paint! We have a huge range of LissieLou 100% food safe brushes.
Check out our LissieLou Cake Equipment Shop now!
The Authors: Verity Scott and Jen from Patesserie May
Jen is the very talented owner of @patesserie.may and is amazing at cookie designs. Head over to her instagram to follow her and get cookie inspiration! Jen makes a huge amount of our content for our cookie range!
Verity is one of the co-founders of LissieLou, bringing a passion for creativity and cake decorating to everything the brand creates. With years of hands-on experience in the cake industry, she loves developing tools that make decorating easier, more enjoyable, and accessible for decorators of all skill levels. Verity is especially passionate about helping decorators gain confidence and create beautiful results they’re proud of.