It’s been awhile since I’ve created a blog, so I thought it was finally time for me to sit down and take a break from cookie making and instead focus on helping other cookie decorators sort out some of their cookie decorating problems. I’ll be creating a series of troubleshooting blogs, so watch this space for more cookie decorating problems explained. First up, I’d like to discuss colour over-saturation, or color over-saturation as my American counterparts would call it. It recently happened to me with a set of cookies I was planning to ship to my family in the states. I had dyed the icing a deep blue, but obviously had gone overboard, as when the icing dried it was...
“If you go down in the woods todayYou're sure of a big surpriseIf you go down in the woods todayYou'd better go in disguise! For every bear that ever there wasWill gather there for certainBecause today's the day theTeddy Bears have their picnic.” Little Alfie is 1! These cookies started with a white royal icing flooded base. Then I used Americolor red, green and blue sheen airbrush colors to create the Gingham background. I did this by using a stripe stencil, airbrushing with the stripes one direction, waiting for that to dry, then airbrushing the stripes the opposite direction. On top of the gingham background, I traced teddy bears and their picnic, then filled those traced shapes with white piping...
