Cookies and Colours -

Hello Again!

I know its been almost a week since my last post, but having a 28 year old man in the house for a long weekend (4 whole days) Is much the same as having an 8 year old boy in the house. Hard to keep occupied. Took a day yesterday to recover.

Now, Back to it!

So I Iced my cookies And I'm not entirely pleased with them. They are ok for my second go ever, but I still know I can do better. So I'm thinking I might have another go at these before the date if I have time, and swap out some of the ones I'm not so pleased with.

Here are a few:

My Biggest problem with sugar cookies is that I'm impatient. I don't like waiting a day for the first part to dry to add more then wait for that, etc etc. So all of my cookies are wet on wet, and then left to dry overnight. even then, its a very time consuming process, that if you don't have the time to sit down and do it, they wont work. I had the time, (that time was 11pm at night, but I found time. That's all that matters, right?) So I set myself up at the dining table and got to work. Now, I still don't have the consistencies quite right, but alot closer than last time I think, and I have every intention of purchasing some Americolor gel colours, but at the moment I use Queen Colour and flavours. (I actually have a ridiculous amount of their products. :p)

I do enjoy using them for cupcakes and rainbow cakes, they seem to work pretty well, with a good saturation of colour - Although I do wish they had a purple, and I didn't have to try and mix it myself. (that always ends badly) :

But Any way, Getting back to the cookies.

Getting royal icing to be the right thickness, and colour can be a little challenging if you don't have the right products, and having liquid colour/ water based colour can be a problem, as it messes with your consistencies. The last thing you want is your icing falling off your cookie just so you can have the colour depth that you want. so next time I hope to do cookies with gel colour. but for this one I found that as long as you expect your icing to be a little runnier in the final coloured product you should be fine.

I also made my Royal icing a lemon flavoured icing by adding lemon juice (the bottled variety as its lump and pulp free) to go with the orange flavours I added to the cookies. The taste is a summery light citrus flavour, and I was quite happy with the textures of the cookies when finished.

Tomorrow I start my next cake order, and I cant wait to show you all the finished product. I hope to remember to take photos along the way to share with you next week, the process of a lightly sculpted cake. :)

Thanks for reading as always :)

The Beginner Baker.