Saturday 21 January 2012

By george I think she's got it!

Well I decided to whip up a batch of cookies to do some practice work for valentines. yet again I used a different recipe this time I used the sugar cookie recipe from Sweetopia I figured I use so many techniques and such from her site I should try her cookies. They turned out awesome my fave so far i prefer a soft cookie as apposed to crunchy so these were perfect. I halved the recipe and still got 3 dozen out of it.

as per usual I used her royal icing recipe as well halved it too and again worked out great. I finally feel like I'm starting to get the hang of consistency and how much to use on a cookie to not have those shallow spots. I tried a new technique I found on youtube called embroidered cookie. This wasn't the video I found but its pretty much the same.

I did ok for my first time some were ugly some were pretty good. I was more impressed with the fact that my icing wasn't all wonky and weird looking I cannot believe how much practice it takes just to get the right consistency. I am still on the search for something to make my cookies shinier once there dry I have yet to find that "secret" ingredient.

You may also have noticed my different background and new logo it is just something I whipped up while messing around in illustrator the logo that is the background is from another site. I eventually will turn this blog into a website but that is not anytime soon it is a work in progress. Well enough jibber jabber here is the pictures sorry there nothing amazing I shot them on my iphone until I make it big this is what you get hahah jk sorta :P.








Saturday 7 January 2012

Hey folks!

Well christmas is over it was awesome I love spending time with the family and Carter got spoiled. My 30th birthday is tomorrow I was going to make some princess cookies but we are all sick ugh I will be happy when winter is over. So here is some cute cookies from sweetopia shes a huge inspiration to me and I use alot of tips from her site.


I promise I will be back soon with something awesome hope everyone had a great christmas and new years