Painting cookies?
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Comments (33)I have no ability or patience to do such decorating but really love to look at them. I'm sorry you get the headaches Michelle but what a lovely 'recovery' idea. One hint I'll add that I got from a professional baker... roll your cookie dough out on parchement paper or the rimless sheets they used. Cut your cookies out ON this and just pick up the scraps, rather than try and lift cut out cookies ONTO a sheet. Of course they also were uber-efficient in making use of all the space of the rolled cookie dough and did not have many scaps at all. I have a zillion cookie cutters but never make rolled cookies. It figures, doesn't it !?!?!?!! I must need camp again. Maureen...See MoreDo you decorate snowmen cookies/desserts in the south??
Comments (17)I grew up where Amanda did, and I didn't see snow until I was 11. It was warmer than usual when I was a child, and we also were having a very long drought. We did sing "Frosty the Snowman" and decorate snowman cookies, however. When we finally did have snow, it was only one or two inches, and my sister and I scraped the entire front yard clean to make a two foot high snowman, which was anything but white because of all the leaves that were in it. My grandmother had a landscape painting in her den that was a scene of a river flowing through a snowy landscape. It was painted around 1927, I think, and was rather dark, with a dark sky and dark rocks at the river. The river was also dark, but there were lots of patches of white snow. As a child, I though the patches of snow were ghosts and had no idea that it was a landscape painting, and it always scared me to see it. I think I was 12 before I figured out what it really was. She had another dark painting from the same period of a vase with tulips in it, and I thought it was a bear wearing a hat - the vase was the bear's head and the tulip blossoms were the hat. That one scared me also. Lars...See MoreRosemary West book Cookie Jars
Comments (2)If you live in an area with large thrift shops like Goodwill or Salvation Army, they are a great source of canning jars. If you are looking for jars like the old fashioned mustard jars, etc., try friends especially if they are crafters - we save everything. Belle...See MoreCounter top help for this cookie cutter kitchen..(pics)
Comments (15)Yea, the counters aren't in bad shape at all. Except there's some water damage around that wood trim. Which is also the part I hate the most. That trim! And with wanting to paint the cabs white, I can't leave that and I don't like the look of that part painted, either. You know how you walk in the room, and something just stands out and as eye sore, making you not like the entire room. That's what these counters do for me. I really wouldn't mind the kitchen at all, if it weren't for those. Heck..I'd probably not even paint the cabs, (a whole other fear there). But, the green with the red paint kills me. If we don't get them done in the next six months, we're painting the kitchen again. Just to get rid of the red and green. It's funny, one of the reasons we bought this house a yr ago over some of the others, was because of the counters. I was so sick of seeing the same granite everywhere, this was a nice change. I think if I could go to a granite yard, pick out a beautiful slab I'd consider doing granite. But, I'm really just tired of seeing it in every single house I go to. High end homes, to middle of the road ones like mine. I have no choice but to do something cheaper, from a box store. And I just can't see doing the thin, little granite slabs all the builders and flippers do around here....See More
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoI would try royal icing or plllog's suggestion. Cookie painting is something I've wanted to try. Some are really pretty, such as these pumpkin "watercolor" painted cookies that do involve using royal icing first. Too pretty to eat.
ETA - A couple links that, again, use royal icing. One of these uses the vodka maddielee mentioned.
https://owlbbaking.com/painted-sugar-cookies/
https://www.midwestliving.com/recipe/old-fashioned-sugar-cookies-with-watercolor-icing/
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