So in Part 1, I posted some tips that I thought would be really helpful to someone who is making cake pops for the first time. In part 2, I’ll be getting into how to make awesome decorated sugar cookies or more like refer you to the sites I visit to learn how to make and decorate sugar cookies.
SuGar CooKies-
To get a recipe for sugar cookies and royal icing visit sweetsugarbelle. This is also an awesome site to learn about the different types of consistency for royal icing that you would need to pipe or flood a cookie. There are also great tutorials and visuals for you to check out on the blog. The author of the blog always posts her newest creations for us bakers to admire and receive inspiration from.
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ahaha, I just realized I don’t really have that much to write for sugar cookies because the site I mentioned above does a really great job at showing and describing how to do it.
A question I did get from my sister was where I got the cutout for the dinosaur cookies. The answer is: I MADE IT! hehehe. I just cut off a piece of scrap cardboard from a box and outlined my dinosaur shapes on there. Its helpful to not just draw the outline but also the features of the character you’re trying to make for future references when you start icing the cookie. This is a really inexpensive way to make sugar cookies of all different kinds. The only thing that I have to complain about is that because this is made from cardboard it doesn’t pierce the cookie doh like a regular cutter does. So, it requires more effort because you need to use a knife to cut around the cutout. If you don’t want to waste time cutting around a cardboard cutout, I did learn a really nifty method from a friend when I read her blog. You can read her post here at artdamage.net. She made a really awesome android and Totoro cutter from a hose clamp. This is engineering and ingenuity right there.
My opinion about the cookies: The sugar cookies I made using sweetsugarbelle’s recipe were really soft and yummy. I was told it “melts in your mouth” hahahaha, but the icing from the site can be TOO sweet. I’m going to find another recipe or decrease the sweetness somehow, and I’ll post that up when I find it.
Mmmm any other tips… ahhh you really do need to check on your cookies often. It only takes 5-7 mins to bake. You want to make sure the cookies don’t burn and that it is baked well enough that it can handle being moved around. I find that baking them a little longer is better than taking it out too soon. The sugar cookies are extremely soft and delicate and baking them just a little longer, for me it was when the edges of the cookie were a little golden brown, helped make the transportation process and excessive handling a lot easier. But the fact is my cookies were really thin. They were less than a 1/4 of an inch thick and so there were a couple that didn’t survive after I took them out of the oven. I still saved them and pretended like the dinosaurs were purposely made to have disconnected body parts. hmmm that could have also been the reason why the icing was too sweet. TOOO much icing, not enough COOKIE!
Well enjoy the pictures and for those lucky few enjoy my little gifts!
Sweet GummY dReamS 