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I needed to make some cookies for a friend's engagement party, and I saw
these precious little snuggling Lovebird cookies. They didn't look too
complicated, so I decided to give them a try.
Now I'm not an experienced cookie decorator, so it was a painstaking and time-consuming task for me...
I used Toba
Garrett's Glace Icing (Royal Icing with equal parts milk and corn
syrup) as described in her book
Creative Cookies, and I used
Wilton Icing Gel for the teal color, and AmeriColor gel for the
bright white and black.
In this closeup you can see that the teal blue flooding glaze is a
little splotchy. I actually made these ahead of time and froze them.
The freezing worked great except for the splotchy-ness of the blue. I
don't know if the problem was the type of glaze used (corn syrup), the thin, flooding consistency of the glaze,
or the type of color (Wilton). I will have to do some experimenting to
find out what is causing the problem.
But the splotchy blue was not that noticeable so I kept decorating. Pink cheeks, brown branch, orange nose and tiny orange toes. All of these were colored using Wilton gels.
And after a few grueling hours ;-) I managed to churn out eight cookies. But they still looked a little plain.
So I took some little fondant flower I had made for some other cookies and gave the bride dove a little bouquet. Now that looks better.
I just hope the bride-to-be likes them. But hey, what's not to like about snuggling lovebirds?
Happy Decorating,
Carol
