I LOVE decorating cookies and cakes. Ever since I worked at the ice cream shop, I have loved decorating pastries! I first learned how to pipe decorations at Brusters, where I was taught to decorate ice cream cakes.
Butterflies
Since I have been married, I have perfected some amazing cookie recipes! It doesn't matter how beautiful your decorating is if your cookie is not delicious! My all time favorite sugar cookie recipe is Betty Crocker's classic recipe that has been around for ever! They are perfectly soft, and delicious!
Fall sugar cookies I made for a wedding
Pumpkins!
Acorns!
Leaves!
I always hated the way homemade icing tasted. I have never tried one I really liked, and that kept me from ever making any cut out cookies until I tried some of my Aunt Sandy's sugar cookies. The icing on her cookies was so good and it dried hard like royal icing so I asked her for the recipe. She told me she uses Jiffy's Frosting Mix! I used it for a long time on all of the cookies I have decorated. It tastes good and its very easy to prepare- you only add water! However, it always turns out very lumpy and I have a hard time using decorating tips with that icing. Also, its not very white, its actually sort of off white, so colors turn out a little different with it. I used it for all of the cookies pictured here so far.
Some simple flowers!
I finally attempted my first home-made icing recipe and right after I whipped it together I loved the taste of it! I decorated a bunch of cookies for a baby shower and the icing was very easy to use. It was very white, which I really liked. It was also very smooth and easy to use with my decorator tips! It also got really hard like a royal icing is supposed to.
Onesies and pacifiers!
I loved the swirling details on the bibs and strollers!
Baby Rattles!
Then at the baby shower I noticed the icing was too hard. Way too hard! Someone at the shower told me that's just the way royal icing is. So I am on the hunt for the perfect royal icing recipe! I will share any adventures I have on this hunt :)
Check out the winning recipe on this post My Perfect Royal Icing !
