Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Take 2

Our second attempt turned out better, especially on the frosting front.  On the cookie front, incomparable because I just bought a sugar cookie mix and called it "done."  

For the frosting, we pained on watered-down royal icing in white.  Then, we piped on runny royal icing in green and blue.  They turned out awesome!  

Just for the record, we used two types of brushes to paint the base coat on the cookies.  One was a boar bristle 1" basting brush made by OXO.  The other was a silicone basting brush that we have had lying around in the drawer.  I went to Michael's again and I did see some small brushes made by Wilton, but I had already talked to the experts at the local kitchen shop, who said a basting brush would work, and they were right!

-吴碧芙

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very nice!!!
This year I tried making frosted sugar cookies for the first time in decades. Lesson learned: don't use flamingo cookie cutters. The necks and legs break either during the cut-out phase, the baking transfer phases, or the frosting phase. The next time I try it (a few decades from now?), I will stick to trees, stars, and snowmen. Big ones. ...and no fancy brush-on icing.
-TABinNH