After many past disasters that I didn't want to repeat, I did some research on the Internet. Here is what I discovered.....
First step, bake some yummy sugar cookies...I wanted a simple design, I chose the snowflake, a nice simple easy decoration because each cookie can be different.
I wanted to use a frosting without eggs and that would also dry and harden with a nice shine.
The frosting recipe is
1/4 cup warm water
1 teaspoon of almond extract
2 tablespoons of light corn syrup
3 cups of icing sugar
Mix all together until desired consistency. Then I divided the icing up into tightly sealed containers.
Second step, to outline the cookies with frosting. I chose a soft pastel blue..I had the little ones in mind with the theme from Frozen. They are going to love them!
Third step, is to float that same colour of pale blue in the centre of each cookie. I added a little bit of water that would allow the icing to float. I tried spooning the icing in and spreading it around to cover the entire centre of the cookie evenly. Not so easy and very messy, I was getting icing everywhere! So I took some advice from the Internet, I can't remember the site now, but one post suggested using a squeeze bottle....Yes, in a controlled fashion I could float the icing into every cookie, evenly, without any waste or icing drips all over the table.
Fourth step, make this design into a snowflake and so pretty to look at.
So I used the plain white, but the first couple of cookies were too thin, so I thicken the icing up, but it was too thick and I couldn't get the icing out of the icing bag. Back to adding a touch more water
And voila, I had the right consistency. Here is the photo of the finished snowflake cookies, I think the girls are going to love eating them right up!
Although there were lots of steps, letting each step harden is the secret to a successful outcome.
Next cookie holiday is Valentine's...I can't wait...
Until next time...happy creating
Nadine
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