Part 4 - More icing tips for your Valentine’s Day cookies
Tip 2 - Dipping Your Sugar Cookies
This is one of the easiest and most fun techniques for children. It can be a little bit messy but what’s the fun of making cookies with kids if there is no mess at all?
One again your take some of your royal icing and thin it down. I like to do this with shallow disposable bowls. Trust me, you’ll thank me when you’re tired and it’s time for cleaning up. Take about a quarter cup to a third a cup of icing, add in your colors and then water, just a drop at a time until your icing is just a little thinner than corn syrup. I like to color all my icing before starting so you’re all ready to go and don’t have to keep stopping to color more icing. For Christmas cookies I recommend red, green & white at a minimum. If you’re doing snowflakes then pale blue is nice and for variety you may like yellow for stars and perhaps a darker blue.
Take your cookie and just dip it into your color. Lift it out, give it a little shake to get rid of the excess and then flip it over and give it another little shake to help it settle and smooth it out. Set it down, icing side up, on wax or parchment paper. At this point you can sprinkle it with sanding sugars, dragée, sprinkles or any other toppings you like and then leave them alone to dry. Here are some cookies I made using this method:
You can make cool swirly patterns by dropping tiny dots of colored icing onto other colors and gently swirling the colors together using a toothpick. This is a technique kids never get tired of and yet it still makes adults go ooooh and ahhh.
May 13th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Those look delicious