Preserving a cookie intact

Factual Questions
1

(Mods, this seemed more like GQ that Cafe Society, but your discretion).

My daughter decorated a cookie for my wife for Mother’s Day, rather beautifully. My wife wants to keep it so it’s been sitting in a plastic bag, now I’m sure quite stale, just waiting for the accident that destroys it.

The cookie is an ordinary sugar cookie. I don’t know what the icing is made from, but it’s the kind that sets up hard.

I’d like to do something to help preserve the cookie, but I’m not sure how to go about it. Obviously it needs to be protected from humidity and pests with some kind of clear coating, which ideally would also give it some structural strength. I imagine mounting it to some kind of stiff board (with glue? with brackets?) would also help. Then finally I’ll put it in a nice frame.

Also, did I mention the cookie is heart-shaped?

Thanks for all your help.

2

Perhaps a spray on shellac would be a suitable coating to preserve it?

3

my grandfather used to make elaborate Christmas cookies for the family, IIRC they were iced with hard fondant. Some were “preserved” and used as ornaments, and as I recall they were sealed with some sort of shellac like Iggy suggests. But you need to make sure they dry out thoroughly.

and they won’t be indestructible or anything, but the, uh, shellacking ( :wink: ) will make them a bit more chip- and crumble-resistant.

4

Ideally they’d be made without butter, as butter-made cokes will get a strong rancid odor after a few months.

5

*cookies, not cokes!

6

You could attempt — or better still get someone experienced — to encase it in acrylic resin.
EHOW

Family Education

Never tried this, but there are some dangers without precautions.

7

Hmm, the resin casting sounds interesting.

8

So this is the way the cookie doesn’t crumble.