recently made 40 cookies for another children's event at my church with the theme this year being superheroes. and before I get rebuked by my faithful readers and concerned friends, these cookies were easier and less time consuming than last year's cupcakes, so no worries, I barely broke a sweat with this one. ahem.
for a split second, I entertained the idea of making tiny superhero scenes out of fondant to be carefully balanced atop iced cupcakes, but I remembered my determination to live a simpler life for the well being of all around me, and went with superhero sound effects on cookies.
this was also the first time I've used the "flood icing" technique. and man, what a time saver. I knew about the flood technique, but just never decorated enough cookies to make it a point to learn and apply. especially this technique wherein the flood icing is thick enough to outline and melt together at the same time. thanks sugarbelle for your helpful tutorials.
here are a few leftover cookies I decided to decorate in the same style for a friend who's birthday recently passed. I outlined the shape with black to create that cartoon feel, then filled the outer colour first, and finished off with the yellow middles.
after drying for a few hours, I took a black food colouring marker...
and wrote on the icing.
love these food colouring markers. such a time saver and can create such sharp edges and detail.
and heck, since I had icing leftover, I took one of mischaela's gluten-free cookies and made her something special. another tip: use candy making squeeze bottles to hold flood icing.
added a few black details with the food colour marker.
intended to wait until the party to give mischaela her cookie so she'd have something to eat while everyone else ate gluten-filled cookies, but here she is, in her carseat, on the way over to the party, making sure the caterpillar wasn't eating through her cookie.
for a split second, I entertained the idea of making tiny superhero scenes out of fondant to be carefully balanced atop iced cupcakes, but I remembered my determination to live a simpler life for the well being of all around me, and went with superhero sound effects on cookies.
this was also the first time I've used the "flood icing" technique. and man, what a time saver. I knew about the flood technique, but just never decorated enough cookies to make it a point to learn and apply. especially this technique wherein the flood icing is thick enough to outline and melt together at the same time. thanks sugarbelle for your helpful tutorials.
here are a few leftover cookies I decided to decorate in the same style for a friend who's birthday recently passed. I outlined the shape with black to create that cartoon feel, then filled the outer colour first, and finished off with the yellow middles.
after drying for a few hours, I took a black food colouring marker...
and wrote on the icing.
love these food colouring markers. such a time saver and can create such sharp edges and detail.
and heck, since I had icing leftover, I took one of mischaela's gluten-free cookies and made her something special. another tip: use candy making squeeze bottles to hold flood icing.
added a few black details with the food colour marker.
intended to wait until the party to give mischaela her cookie so she'd have something to eat while everyone else ate gluten-filled cookies, but here she is, in her carseat, on the way over to the party, making sure the caterpillar wasn't eating through her cookie.
2 comments:
Man, that's certainly a talent you have there!
And Mischaela is still really cute :P
so cool! did not know about food colouring markers. incredible!
just got asked to do a child's birthday cake. very little experience with piping buttercream and no experience with fondant. they want a monster design. any suggestions/tips?
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