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<\/a><\/p>\nI made some mistakes and have a list of improvements to make, but I also have a list of ideas for future decorations swirling around in my head and am eager to practice more!<\/p>\n
I happened upon\u00a0SugarBelle’s blog<\/a> and used her royal icing recipe<\/a> for these cookies (Note: After finishing my cookie experiment, I saw a much more recent post from SugarBelle with an updated royal icing recipe and tips here<\/a>!).<\/p>\n Here are the ingredients ready to begin my royal icing adventure…<\/p>\n The recipe called for mixing up VERY stiff icing to start from for tinting and watering down to desired consistencies for decorating. I think I was pretty successful in this (and my wrist felt it too after mixing in all of the coloring!)<\/p>\n The only two green tint colors I had were these two…<\/p>\n Let the tinting begin! After multiple rounds of adding a couple drops at a time and stirring…<\/p>\n Even if not quite the two green colors I had imagined, I eventually got a decent contrast and figured that was the best I could do with what I had… time to expand my green tint collection!<\/p>\n (I apologize for lack of photos during this process…) I then watered down my ‘pipe consistency’ icing with a spray water bottle, placed it in a piping bag with a #3 tip, and prepared my ‘flood consistency’ icing by watering it down even more, and placed it in a squeeze bottle. Starting simple, below you can see one cookie that has been outlined, and the other that has been outlined and then “flooded’. And then there were these…. \ud83d\ude00 I went crazy with multiple compositions!<\/p>\n (I’m wishing I had more than four $1 gold coins…. I think it would have made for more of an impactful message ;))<\/p>\n Since I didn’t have anything rainbow to add to the mix, I created one out of Washi tape \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n And let (a little too<\/em>) loose with the edible gold\u00a0glitter!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n