Sugar Dress/SugarVeil Wedding Heart Cookies

My step-daughter was married recently and as part of the celebration she asked me to make some decorated sugar cookies. As I was short on time and the cookies needed to be made with certain allergens in mind, I had the cookies made by Dee's Bakery in Glastonbury, CT. They are a wheat free, dairy free bakery and they were willing to work with my cookie cutters.  

I used the SugarVeil heart mold and Sugar Dress Confectionery Lace Mix to make 40 heart shapes. Luckily, I was able to make regular royal icing with powdered sugar and Wilton's meringue powder. However, my step-daughter cannot have red dye 40, so I used blue gel color and beet root powder to color the royal icing purple, one of the colors of the wedding. I found beet root powder at Amazon and felt it dissolved well in the icing. As as aside, I used the beet root powder to color wafer paper and found it to be very grainy in that situation. 

I have since thought 
the beet root powder 
could likely be ground
down further for that 
particular application. 

After letting the royal icing dried firm I dampened a lace heart and applied it immediately to a cookie. I used white royal icing to pipe details into the hearts, making each one distinctly different. No two are exactly the same. 

These cookies were a real treat to decorate and were well received by all. I look forward  to the next cookies decorated with Dress Lace.