How to make Ribbon Roses. {Video} How to Dry Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing. If you can’t see the video click HERE. If you prefer watching videos on Vimeo, click HERE. Hi there! Hope all of you are having a good start to 2012 and hope this year is filled with lots of sweet things for you. I’m excited to start my year with some fun cookie themes, like these Parisian ones here. I’ll be doing a travelling series of Around the World decorated cookies, and I just happened to begin my journey with Paris, France.
Oh la la! I knew when I found these paris design sticky notes by Jillian Phillips, I just had to make a cookie version. As part of this post, I thought I’d share with you how I dry my cookies after I’ve decorated them with royal icing. Something I didn’t mention in the video, is that the cookie shapes were made using templates I made, not cutters. Either way, if you’re not making too many of these, cutting the cookies out with a template and paring knife, isn’t difficult, it just takes a bit longer than using a cutter. You can find an Eiffel Tower cookie cutter here. O’ Harry Potter… so many possibilities. As a children’s lit academia nut, of course I adore Harry Potter.
I gobbled up every one of the books as they hit the stands, starting way back when in—sheesh, ’98 was it? And I’ve done many a Harry Potter cookie over the years, for the cookie possibilities are many. Gryffindor shields, Hedwig, the Sorting Hat, broomsticks, Potions books, cauldrons, castles, Dementors, wands, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Hagrid, The Daily Prophet, Bertie Bott’s… And so, narrowing down my choices to just a few for this post was near impossible. I may add more later, but for now, here are some tips to making Harry’s glasses, a lightning bolt and a broomstick. For the glasses, I used a bikini top cookie cutter.
I cut out the others by hand, so I included a pdf HERE for you. If preferred, print the document and cut out the shapes to use as templates. You will need:*doughicing lightening cutter or template 1 frosting bag 1 coupler 1 size 4 tip 1 rubber band yellow frosting color yellow sanding sugar or sprinkles. Cakeoffice.com. Food Standards Agency - Catering and retail. Bakerella.com. University of Cookie. Decorating Bags: Preparing. Whether you use disposable or reusable bags, parchment cones or sandwich bags, the decorating bag is a very important part of cookie decorating, and knowing how to use one is critical to your success. Here are some tips for preparing all kinds of bags. Disposable Bags: Disposable bags are a great invention! They have the convenient throw-away nature of parchment cones (although they CAN be reused if you wish), and the comfort of a reusable bag.
If you will be using your disposable bag without a coupler, you will need to clip about 1 inch from the tip of the bag. To use a coupler, push the coupler down inside the bag just as far as it will go. Reusable Bags: Reusable bags are quite similar to disposables when it comes to preparation; however, unless you have a very large tip, you will always need to use a coupler with the reusables. IMPORTANT NOTE: You need to be aware that both disposable and reusable bags are very flexible.
Parchment Cones: Sandwich Bags: Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos. Learning about Icing Consistency. How to Decorate Cookies with Royal Icing - Top 10 Tips. I’ve had many questions regarding decorated cookies since I began 7-ish years ago, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite decorating tips I’ve learned over time. By no means am I an expert, but I hope you find my top 10 suggestions helpful. There are so many ways of decorating cookies; you can cover them with fondant, rainbow sprinkles, delicious melted chocolate… I could go on, but one of my favorite ways is to flood a cookie with royal icing (flood icing).
To basically cover the cookie with a smooth, glossy, sugary coating; piped in such a way that your icing becomes a design – instant sugar art! My tips today refer to decorating cookies with flood icing. I’ve got an in-depth tutorial here, which goes over how to flood in detail. How to Flood Cookies with Royal Icing – Top 10 Tips 1. 2. Drag a butter knife through the surface of your royal icing and count to 10. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Happy cookie decorating! Xo, Marian Related Content. Portfolio | Graphic Design Somerset, South West | Drink Tea Eat Biscuits.