Let's Get Started:

• Bake your favorite sugar cookie recipe with your desired size of Butterfly cookie cutters. Once baked, cool them completely.

Decorating the Cookies:

• Roll some white sugar paste about 1/3 inch thick.
• Place plastic wrap over the paste and cut with cookie cutter. Using plastic wrap over the paste will give you a beveled edge that looks much nicer than the usual square edges.

• Use piping gel or sugar syrup to adhere the paste to the cookies.
• Run your finger around edges to smooth the sides.
• Use your corn flour pouch to buff the surface of the cookies. This will give you a nice, smooth surface.

• Let the finished fondant topped cookies dry for about an hour.

Now, give your cookies a color wash. You can do this in two ways:

• First Option: Dry powder colors - which gives the cookie a lighter base.
• Second Option: Gel colors mixed with vodka or lemon extract.

• Use brush strokes from the outer edges to the center of the cookie.
• You can add the first color, leave to dry for a few minutes, then add a second color to add more depth. Uneven color patches look nicer on the finished cookie.

Adding the butterfly body:

• Use Satin Ice Black fondant with CMC (added so that the fondant dries harder, and won't be squashed when stacked).
• Roll into sausage shaped pieces tapering towards one end, as shown below.
• Make an indent for the head with the knife and eyes with a pin. Add some lines for the body if you choose.

Adding the black details on the wings:

• Print a few butterfly designs for inspiration. You can be organic and creative in your design of the wings, but it is important to maintain symmetry between both sides.

• Ensure the color wash is dried on the cookie.
• Create the outline of the butterfly's wings. Top two and bottom two.
• You can make the black outline as thin or thick as you desire, beginning with a black line in the center of the body may help achieve symmetry.
• Once you have the divisions made, start adding the veins of the wings.
• You can see the graduation of lines from the 3rd to the 5th images.

• Lastly I added some yellow dots to create highlights.

Enjoy!