Okay, enough of my complaining. On to cookies.
This past week I had nothing short of a disastrous icing situation. I'm blaming it on the humidity. Without going in to a lot of details something drastically went wrong with my icing. I was working with three different colors. One of which was a little runny.....which has happened before but after two days, the icing did not set up. The night before the order was due, I had to toss out a third of the cookies and start over. I didn't have time to let myself cry, but that is all I wanted to do. I had to bake the cookies, make the icing, decorate and pray that the cookies set up over night. Success!
I made 15 birthday cake cookies in three colors, 2 different designs.
And 50 #3 cookies in three colors.
Today I baked up these ribbons for my friend's friend. Unfortunately, the color didn't translate that well when I took a picture but they are teal for Ovarian Cancer. (Anna, I'm thinking about you and I hope you enjoy the cookies!!!)
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5 comments:
Your COOKIES are great, Melissa... love the birthday cakes... Icing not setting: That has happened to me!!! I always turn the ceiling fan on to help COOKIES dry... and on rainy days, I've dried COOKIES with a blow drier... some people put them 3-5 min in a hot oven, but I've never done it... it helps a lot to increase the meringue powder 50% on your recipe... Hope they dried on time :)
I like the sparkly outline on the numbers...so cute!
Humidity is NOT fun! We're in Houston...I can relate!
I just had to come over and tell you that your "swamp" comment made me laugh out loud!! I'm getting ready to wrap up in the bakery (still have 1 tray left to ice!) and I decided to read comments. Nice end to a crappy day.
I'm hosting a swamp!!
if you have a small room that you can close off, get a dehumidifier and leave your cookies on a rack in the dehumidified room.
Also, invest in a heat gun. Works better than a hairdryer cause it gets super hot and doesn't blow huge gusts of air.
Just my 2cents!
Lily's cookies look so cute! Can't wait to see you :)
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