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. {}:-).