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Surf's Up!

Throwback Thursday to the surf board cookies I made just before my daughter's first trip to surf camp.

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This was my first foray into using stencils, which I did with royal icing versus airbrushing. I'm hooked! I love the texture it gives the cookies. 

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Can't wait to try making these again!

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tags: decorated, orange, blue, beach, royal icing, #tbt
categories: cookies
Monday 08.15.16
Posted by Michelle
 

First Foray with Fondant

We celebrated my big brother's birthday this weekend, and, in true I Bake fashion, that meant making some of my favorite sugar cookies. Every time I make cookies, I look for new ways to decorate and this time, I went for gridlines and, for the first time ever, venture into the land of fondant. 

Fondant virgin

Fondant virgin

We started by heading to the craft store and piling up on pre-made fondant, tools, and, Ingrid's favorite, disco dust. 

For a first-timer, I may have gone a little overboard on fondant tools

For a first-timer, I may have gone a little overboard on fondant tools

Once we got home, we started baking, using our favorite sugar cookie recipe. Let me just tell you -- baking with an enthusiastic 4-year-old is incredibly fun, but also remarkably slow. What is normally a 20 minute process probably took double that, but hey, she had fun!

My (adorable!) assistant. Notice the apron...

My (adorable!) assistant. Notice the apron...

While the cookies were baking, I set Ingrid up with the "edible Play-doh". She has a hard time rolling dough, so having an Ingrid-sized rolling pin and small amounts of fondant made her night. 

Mesmerized with the "stitching" roller

Mesmerized with the "stitching" roller

We spent hours experimenting with shapes, colors, and stamps;  we loved how easy it was to work with fondant. It's so forgiving -- if you don't like the way a piece turns out, you just re-roll it and try again, which is important to a Type-A personality like myself. The flower shapers were especially fun, but you definitely need more than one set if you want to do more than a few at a time. I really should have taken more pictures of the fondant process, but I was so engrossed that it slipped my mind. Next time!

Here are a few of the final products:


tags: fondant, birthday, celebration, blue, orange, royal icing, sugar cookies
categories: cookies
Tuesday 10.07.14
Posted by Michelle
Comments: 1
 

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