I saw this music mesh stencil online and I knew I had to have it. I think it would work much better and get a cleaner image with an airbrush, but I’m not there yet. It still worked well with just royal icing, I chose my favourite sugar cookie recipe, but this would work well with gingerbread as well. I lined some of them with fondant and others I brushed gently wit some lustre dust for an aged look.
Working with mesh stencils give amazing results, but it’s a bit slow going. you have to flood the cookie and then wait for it to dry before you can stencil. Then, you can only do so many cookies before you have to wash the stencil – the pattern gets blurrier and less defined the more you use it. After washing it off, you have to wait for it to dry again before use or the image smears.
