Voila! Dainty Doubloons for Mardi Gras! Doubloons are the coins thrown to the crowds along with beads during the Mardi Gras parades. I have a few authentic ones from New Orleans, plus fake plastic party store versions, so just last week I had a 3am brainstorm to use my edible printer to make doubloon sandwich cookies to show off both sides of the coins!
I put all my doubloons directly on my scanner, resized all to the same 1 7/8″ for my smaller circle cutter, adjusted colors since some of the authentic coins were silver, then after several hours in Photoshop the artwork was ready. Unfortunately I’m learning a lot the hard way about the struggles of my edible printer! I had read online before I purchased that the reason to buy Canon is because you can remove the print head, which gets clogged easier with the food 
inks, but I hadn’t had any problems yet. Well, yesterday it printed 5 pages perfectly, then cyan refused to print and magenta reported low. I had a whole extra set of cartridges at least, but after many many rounds of “deep cleaning” that wastes a ton of ink, my last magenta was almost totally gone, and cyan still wouldn’t print! I removed the print head to soak several hours yesterday as I baked 4 dozen life-size edible masks, then let it dry overnight. Today I was able get all the frosting sheets for 80 of these cookies printed plus one other surprise, then cyan pooped out again with plenty of ink, so the print head is soaking yet again. I still have another cool printed rice paper idea that will be for the edible mask decorating, so I’m still hoping that will work before the party on Saturday!
The Dainty Doubloons are now listed on Etsy along with my other frosting sheets. Now back to baking the rest until the sugar cookie dough runs out!
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These are so pretty! Are they just little sugar cookies with frosting in between?
Yes, sugar cookies with non-dairy buttercream inside. They were a hit! Only 5 left out of 5 dozen!
Awesome! I’m doing a Batman-theme shindig this Halloween, so I think I may have to invest in a Canon and edible printing supplies so I can do this with Two-Face’s coin.
If you’re not going to print edibles all the time, you could send me the artwork & we could work out a deal for me to print them for you!
I’m charging $9 per sheet for frosting sheet custom designs, then it’s $5 shipping for domestic US up to 10 sheets together. Let me know! Good luck with your Batman party!
That sounds ideal! I’ll get in touch with you again as the date gets a little closer.