Showing posts with label royal icing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label royal icing. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2009

More baking - cookies this time!

And finally, 30 butterfly cookies for a friend's daughter... Happy birthday Emma!


Fifteen pink ones for the girls and...


fifteen blue ones for the boys.

You wouldn't think I'd have so much trouble finding butterfly cutters, even in Singapore... but I did! Couldn't find them in BIY, because apparently someone had come in a while before and swept all the cutters off the shelves and bought the lot : P. Couldn't find any in PH. Then a friend suggested Shermay's school, which is the last place I would have thought to go, because the shop space is so tiny... but hey, they had them, and they were on sale too : )... hooray! But they were hEUUGE. And wouldn't you know it, I just happened to go to Laura Ashley at Great World last night and they were selling a set of three pretty butterfly cutters for $20, in a pretty box too.

I found this project a little tough going, because I didn't forward plan as much as I should have. Things like not having enough whadjammacallits, sorry , couplers, or not having as small a tip as I would have liked. Plus constant stress worrying that I'd run out of icing. I made 2.5 recipes, but borrowed heavily for my sister's cake : ). Some things just don't go your way... I ran out of blue flow icing with only ONE cookie left to go. I made up some more, piped it in, then lost TWO cookies to breakage (butter fingers!) so had to pipe in another two more, and barely barely made it with what I had left. Moral of the story: plan, plan, plan!

Friday, October 31, 2008

Cookies for School



These next two weeks are going to be full of baking: end of school parties, James' birthday... planning to make

  1. Cookies for James' class, for end of term / birthday
  2. Cookies for Sophie's class
  3. Birthday cake for James
  4. MORE cookies for party favors

So these are the first on my list, cookies for James' class, wearing the school uniform. Cookies are lemon flavored, recipe from a friend.

Hmm. Didn't plan my piping well enough - it would probably have looked better piping the tie over the white flooded background, cause right now only the stripes are standing out : P. Actually, the cuff, band details could probably all have been overpiped too..

Isn't it just typical that the least interesting part of cookie decorating - colour mixing - should be the most time consuming? I only had two colours besides white to mix up and I was already moaning and groaning over the time it took to get there. And isn't it disgusting how much gel colour it takes to build up to a nice bold shade? And frustrating that guidebooks always tell you to add colour "a dab at a time"? At one point I was pushing gollops of gel into my mix, heck about your "dabs"!

The other mistake I made was in the consistency of my soft flow icing... I don't know why I was so stingy with the water. My lines kept breaking up or showing air bubbles in it.