Today we had fun icing the gingerbread Christmas tree cookies. It took a while to master the art of using royal icing, particularly when it came to learning firsthand about the ins and outs of flooding icing and doing borders….. but we got there in the end, with the aid of a Youtube video or two as a source of guidance (what a great teaching tool Youtube often proves to be!).
We found the best way to approach doing the main layer of icing as well as the additional decorative lines was to simply use an icing bag without the addition of a metal icing tip. The icing bags seemed to not work as well otherwise and tended to split, which for a time was quite frustrating. However as previously said, we got there in the end.
Perhaps in the future we might invest in some slightly better, re-usable icing bags, as I am pretty sure you can get ones that are made of materials that don’t break and split when under a bit of pressure… it will be worth investigating.
We had a lot of fun regardless, and you can see some of the resulting cookies in the following photograph…. all rather pretty and yummy.
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