GOLDEN NUGGET COOKIES

What you will need:

• Cookie Dough (This is the recipe I used!) and cutters
• Royal Icing (Piping and Flood Consistency)
• Wilton Candy Melts or White Chocolate
• Candy Molds (These are the ones I used: Diamonds, Roses, and Jewelry 
• Wilton Sugar Crystals
• Crystallized Rock Sugar​
• Food-grade Gold Lustre Dust (Rolkem Super Gold is what I used), and vodka​

Cut out your cookies! You can use whatever cookie cutter you'd like. If you don't have a particular shape, a homemade paper stencil and knife work perfectly.

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Freshly baked! Yum. Set these aside for now so you can prepare your candy molds!

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Melt your white chocolate or Wilton Candy Melts. When you melt the Wilton Candy Melts, be VERY careful to follow the melting instructions. They burn extremely easily. Fill a piping bag with your melted goodness and pipe into your mold shapes.

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While your candy melts or chocolate is hardening in the molds, start decorating your cookies with a stripe of gold!

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I absolutely recommend piping and flooding consistency here for the most precise lines and corners, and smoothest surface! 

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Wait until your icing has fully dried before you start adding the molds and crystals. You don't want to crunch down on some semi-dry icing!

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Use the piping icing to outline the shape of your decorated crystal/nugget area. I messed up here and forgot to add the sugar crystals to the piped border before adding flood icing to the middle.

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Once you have your crystal border, and lightly flooded inside, you can place your candy molds and sugar crystals!

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I really like to pile mine up. And you can use your piping icing as a glue to stick your candy pieces on top of other pieces. Large rock crystals are next! Wherever you have room to stick them. After that, I do another dusting of small sugar crystals to stick to any exposed wet icing. 

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Once the icing is dry and all your pieces are dried in place, you can paint it with a mixture of Gold Lustre Dust and Vodka! It's tricky to get it to stick to waxy chocolate and candy melts, so you may need to add a couple thick coats and wait for each coat to dry in between!