Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Sugar cookies are dead to me!


The above picture is photographic evidence that sugar cookies hate me. I think that this will be my last attempt at sugar cookies for a long time.
Don't get me wrong-the cookies themselves were tasty. It's the decorating part that has left me so frustrated. I had this grand idea in my head and for whatever reason I wasn't able to get that to translate on to a cookie.
I made the icing on the 4th because at the last minute I decided that I wanted to bring some cookies to the family barbecue. I ran out of time on the 4th so I just tossed the royal icing in to the fridge thinking that I'd get back to it within a day or two. Here we are now, almost three weeks later.
I didn't follow a specific recipe when I was making the royal icing. I sort of threw the ingredients in to a bowl. For some reason whenever my royal icing dries it dries really, really shiny. It must be the Karo syrup that does that but I'm not certain.
I made about three dozen cookies and only decorated about ten of them. They weren't coming out the way that I wanted and as I messed with them I got more frustrated. So, unfortunately I won't be quitting my day job to decorate cookies full time. It's official-I'm calling it quits with the idea of decorating beautiful cookies for people. I'll leave it to the pros from now on.

4 comments:

  1. I have had the urge the decorate some cookies lately....but they never EVER look like I want them too.

    Don't give up!

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  2. I gave up on pretty years ago. I make a thick butter cream frosting and pour on the sprinkles. I greatly admire those who have the patience and where with all to create beautiful cookies, but great tasting is good enough for me.

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  3. they look way better than my sugar cookies. the reason i even opened your blog is cuz i thought they looked so good

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