Gorgeous Snowflake Cookies
Dear everyone,
I’ve been basically waking baking. No time to even post pictures up! I’ve made 1. Failed Macarons, 2. A Really Good Lasagne, 3. The Best Carrot-Banana Cake Ever 4. Cookies. Snowflake, Cookies.
Gorgeous snowflake cookies!
…You can’t help but fall in love with them!
Now isn’t that a surprising bake from a girl who has never seen snow in her life? “You don’t even know what it looks like!”
Precisely! I’m dying to know!!! Cos see, ladies and gentlemen. I have never seen snow in my life. But then, neither have my two dogs or my 4 siblings. I’m not sure if that counts for anything though.
Anyway! To console myself this holiday season, I went ahead and bought these gorgeous snowflake cutters that made my eyes and money pop right out. They were sitting so pretty! I wanted to go for counselling to mend my relationship with Money, but he was so fickle, he left me for another woman. :(
It’s my first cookies in forever! This is also my first time dealing with Royal Icing. My kinda icing. I am, of blue blood after all…..you know. ;-)
(Side note to bakers: I ALWAYS have a mental image of what my bakes should turn out like. For these snowflakes, from the moment I saw them on the shelf, I KNEW they had to be light blue with white decorating lines. All you lovely bakers out there — do you do this too?)
Some tips for you guys. I just followed a butter cookie recipe and used a tougher icing texture to pipe the outline and filled it with more liquidy royal icing that was good to spread. I experimented until I got a good spread. The thickness was enough so that when you filled the cookie, it wasn’t translucent. If you guys are planning to do this, use a smaller piping tip to pipe the decorating lines as you get finer detail and more control! :)
Lastly, I have to share this with you…
Guess who this symbolises:
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…PHUA CHU KANG!!!! That’s his mole over there. The period. Heheheh! :P
Phua Chu Kang himself. {}:-).
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 am
hey, they turned out great!!! :D
love the blue and white!
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:43 am
Christine, HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU!!! haha and thank you! were you around when we were baking them? have any idea what other colours do ya think we can do? :)
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 am
The ARE Gorgeous!!
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Sooo pretty! Nice job!
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
Beautiful cookies – good work!
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
You are right, they are gorgeous! I agree, snowflakes have to have blue and white on them because that makes them wintery–at least to me! lol!
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Beautiful job!! And I do the same – I picture the finished product in my mind beforehand. And yes, snowflake cookies must be white and blue.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 pm
HoneyB, thank you!!!
erin @ dessert girl, thanks erin! my sisters helped out too :D
Juliet, thank you! I had so much fun making it. I felt it was like edible art!
Tami, lol YES! I agree, and thank you for your sweet comments! Did you know my grandmum (who also has never seen snow) suggests me to make pink snowflakes? I think it would be cute though! Ah, I need people like her to help me think out of teh box. ;-)
jayne, Thank you!! I admire your blog so much, your photography, recipes and writing is stunning! Whee visual bakers! I just realised why they must be white & blue – for the season! I was thinking more on the colour palatte train of thought, but d’oh – why of course blue & white for the season!
December 5th, 2008 at 12:46 am
your cookies are beautiful, i love blue snowflakes here too~
December 5th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Those cookies are more than beautiful!
December 6th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Banana Carrot Cake? Oh my gosh. I really despise carrot cake, but I would most likely love a carrot cake with a banana twist! I have a wonderful cream cheese icing that I used for banana pumpkin spice muffins, I bet it would be amazing on a banana carrot cake! Ok. I must have the recipe! Your cookies are outstanding by the way! I just bought mini xmas cookie cutters, I cannot wait to start baking + decorating!
December 6th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Jain, thank you!! i’m thinking green snowflakes would be cool too! err? haha!
Nicisme, Aww THANK YOU!!! Too sweet. <3
Wolf Gang Diva, You do! Well actually this is a banana cake with a carrot twist! Haha, cream cheese on it is amaaaaaazing!!! I can’t wait for you to try it! I’ll post up the link with my modifications and the (very awful) picture of the banana carrot cake so you can try it out :D
And thank you! I really wish I could find mini xmas cookie cutters! Or any mini cookie cutters really! I can’t find them here in malaysia and it makes my heart sink :(
December 17th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Eunice,
Are you selling them? If you are not then can post the recipe for the liquidy royal icing?
Planning to make them for Christmas…I got the snowflake cutters from Cake Connection too :)
Regards…May
November 24th, 2009 at 1:51 am
hello from france
beautiful decorated cookie can you tell me which n° nozzle icing (icing tube) you use to decorate your cookies? that would help me thank you for your help!
PLEASE use my email or my contact of my blog for answer thanks a lot !