Saturday, December 11, 2010

Decorated Christmas Cookies

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I was inspired to bake some cookies. Not just any cookies.


Beautiful cookies. Decorated with royal icing. These are legit.

And the icing only require 4 ingredients (I added lemon extract, as well): powdered sugar, corn syrup, meringue powder, and water. I followed this recipe.



After sifting the powdered sugar....


You mix everything in a stand mixer (which I can do now!!). I forgot to take pictures of that. Whoops.
And I really thought I'd taken pictures of tinting the icing red and green and filling the piping bags. But I didn't! Oh well.
Moving on...outline your cookies with the royal icing (I used a #3 tip) and let that sit for at least 10 minutes so it could harden and create a space that I could fill with flood icing.
Create the flood icing by mixing water with the royal icing. I used another piping bag and filled it in with icing. I used a skewer to get it into the corners because I didn't have any toothpicks. I adore these snowflakes.


I did the same thing with these little trees.


The corn syrup in the icing makes them shiny!





Once the icing had mostly set up, I did something very sneaky.
I mixed together water and meringue powder to make a kind of glue, and I used a pastry brush to apply it to certain parts of the cookie. I put sprinkles all over it, and after I shook off the excess, which you can see at the end of the post. (Somehow my pictures got out of order!)



I did the same thing with the snowflakes - I love how they turned out!








I made dots on the ornaments, which I liked, but I'm not very good at outlining circles yet.



This one's just for you, Candice!! :-)



I found a girl cookie cutter, so I designed a few different outfits.




Here's the outcome of the "glue" on the tree cookies. :-)



This was my first time using piping bags and royal icing....you should try it!

1 comment:

  1. TEXAS!!!!!! Thanks friend! You be sure to consume that one some TX goodness in your blood. ;-)

    Candice

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