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Valentine’s Cookies

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:10:24 +0000

I had to do a Valentine’s Day demo at Michael’s Last weekend. I made some heart shaped sugar cookies in various sizes. Instead of using the flood-in icing technique I have done in the past I used modeling chocolate in pink, red, and white to decorate the cookies. Modeling chocolate is made by melting white or dark chocolate and then adding some corn syrup. The result, once cooled, is a chocolate dough that can be molded, cut, and shaped any way you can imagine. You can do with it many of the same things you can do with fondant and it tastes really good because it’s CHOCOLATE!

Besides modeling chocolate I also used some royal icing to make a cornelli lace design on some of the cookies, and colored sugar also adds a nice touch.

Winter Holiday Cookies

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:17:07 +0000

For my second demonstration at Michaels Arts and Crafts I decorate a variety of Holiday cookies to look like ornaments as well as snowflakes. A combination of Royal Icining and Color flow was used to get the various effects. The gold and silver accents were done with luster dust mixed with a little lemon extract and then brushed on the dry royal icing.

Fall and Halloween Cookies

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:24:06 +0000

This weekend I had to give my first demonstration as a Wilton Method Instructor at Michael’s Arts & Crafts. The theme of the demonstration was Halloween treats. I made some pumpkin, ghost, acorn, and leaf cookies cookies. The cookies were decorated by first outlining them in stiff royal icing. Once that was dry they were flooded in using very thin royal icing. Once the flood-in icing was dry enough some detail, like the eyes and mouth of the pumpkins, could be added using medium-stiff royal icing.