Frosting Leaves

James baked another batch of gingerbread cookies to give away at his work.  He asked me to frost them since I did such a good job the first time.  It is actually really easy.  Here's what I did:

Prepped and ready to frost.  One bag of yellow and one bag of red frosting.

Each cookie is different, just like every leaf is different.  Here's how I did two of them.

 

 

When they dry, the frosting is matte.  I did the lines in different ways as well.  I think the leaves at the end of my frosting looked a little better than at the beginning.

 Next cookie.  I like when the color of the leaves darkens at the tips, so that is what I was trying to do.

Didn't exactly do what I wanted, but it still looks good.  And I managed to get the effect I was going after a little later in the frosting process.

The final "tree" of cookie leaves.  I had a harder time making the veins on the large leaves; it took a few tries before I came up with a pattern I liked.