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Decorating Cookies with a Kopykake Projector. I’ll admit it; I’m no artist when it comes to drawing images on cookies. I’m sure I could learn how to improve my drawing skills, but to be perfectly honest it’s not what I want to spend my time doing. I love being able to create icing art, and I love being able to create it relatively quickly. It is for this reason and others that the Kopykake drawing projector has been so invaluable to me – I can easily create sugar art without being able to draw images freehand. If you are somewhat ‘drawing-challenged’ shall we say, or if you’d like to speed up your cake or cookie decorating process, you’ll probably enjoy the Kopykake projector. You should know that I’m not sponsored by Kopykake in any way but do have affiliate links to Amazon and Ultimate Baker, although Amazon is sold out of the models I’ll be reviewing.

I sincerely enjoy the projector and have had many questions regarding using it so am sharing my experience and answers here. What is a Kopykake projector? Why use a Kopykake projector? . Decorating Sugar Cookies... From Start to Finish- Part 2. Yesterday I posted “Part 1” of a detailed tutorial my good friend (and cookie decorator extraordinaire!) Callye of Sweet Sugar Belle put together exclusively for Glorious Treats readers. Today I’m back with all the photo how-to’s for the decorating stage. You’ll need to prepare a batch of Royal Icing. Royal Icing 4 Tablespoons Meringue Powder (I use Wilton Brand) 4 cups (about 1 pound) powdered sugar 6 Tablespoons warm water Beat all ingredients until stiff peaks form.

*Make sure all bowls and utensils are totally grease-free or your icing will never reach proper consistency. Spoon some of the thick white icing into individual bowls and add coloring (Callye and I use For each color of icing, you will want a piping bag (or squeeze bottle) of thick icing and one in the same color of thinned icing. I will use the terms “thick icing“, this is the consistency before adding extra water, and should be about the consistency of toothpaste. Candy Corn Cookies ~Candy Corn Cookies Directions~ Step 1. Candy. Learn How To Cook - Learn Recipe Sugar Cookie Icing. Sugar Cookie Icing. Royal Icing Recipe.