So, here they are. Our first sugar cookies decorated with royal icing. We have to say that the first batch did not turn out that well. Due to a so-so cookie recipe, too-thick royal icing, and a limited color scheme (white and yellow), we were less than pleased with our initial results. Only two of those cookies survived. We tried again with Martha Stewart's "
Ideal Sugar Cookies," with much better results. We also picked up some new food coloring and tested out a few new colors. Our results for the second batch were a bit.... neon, but much better than the first. We decided to use our leftover white piping icing from the first batch, hence the white outlines. Also, a few cookies got squished before we photographed them (should have waited a
little longer before covering them with plastic wrap). Overall though, we were decently happy with this batch, and can even envision making actual nice-looking cookies in the future.
We're both planning on making another batch next weekend (in our respective cities). One of the main lessons learned this weekend was that if you go into a cookie decorating session without a design, you'll get some wins and some real losers. We realized how key it is to have a design in mind before starting the process.
That's it for our first post! Signing off -
Madcap E. and Madcap J.
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