09/04/2026
My favorite edible art project for our Mummy movie night was my serving stone of Scrumptious Scarabs, since I found the blue-green beauty in the frightful flesh-eating bugs from the 1999 movie! Look closely and you can see my sign says “Eat them before they eat you!”
This was inspired by other summer edible art leftovers of black cookie dough and black vegan royal icing. A friend had found oval metal cookie cutters on clearance, so gave me a few saying, “I know you’ll make something more interesting!” She was right! I did look for scarab 3D printed cookie cutter designs, but they didn’t match my vision, so I slightly bent an oval cutter into my scarab shape and started cutting my rolled dough. I used my wood sculpting tool to quickly add the grooves of the wings as a piping guide.
I got 4 dozen thin & crispy cookies from my leftover dough, which was a good amount to pace piping one wing at a time to keep the definition as the icing dried enough not to melt into the next wing. After all the icing dried overnight, I used teal edible shimmer dust leftover from our wedding cocktails, but since that didn’t paint well with vodka or water, I used some green metallic Wilton “cake paint” I’d bought along the way. The cake paint dried quickly, so I had to use a dry brush to tap & blend the shimmer dust immediately as each cookie was painted, then shake off the excess. I intentionally left the edges plain black as an illusion of more rounded wings. I was stunned by how they shimmered more purple-blue than teal at some angles! I had originally planned a gold platter, but since for the menu sign I used the attack scene inside the stone tomb, my serving stone slab seemed superb. There weren’t many cookies left after the party, so I’m glad we all succeeded in eating them before they ate us!
