Cookie Update

[karinothing]

I think faces are just really really hard. Like I am no expert but I think I could have done the hat/oufit/etc but not the face.


This is why i stick to cookies without faces lol.

[cookies]

I totally saw Cartman too.

We can't all be Bakerella, but I think it was a noble effort!

[jigsy]

Dec 20, 2012 13:55:42 GMT -5 kooshball said:

Nice job giving it a shot. I wouldn't have even tried... or maybe paid someone to do it for me.

Seriously...I would have so cheated and ordered some wan cookies because I like to win!

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You put in good effort but I think next year you should just do a tasty cookie and focus less on the fanciness. Or switch to something with a lot less pain to color like a snowflake.

I would have ditched the entire effort after 2 days bed rest so good for you for keeping at it.

[speckledfrog]

I love you for updating with the finished photo. They are definitely passable as Elf on the Shelf elves.

[Brie]

Please submit this to pinterestfail.com.

<3

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I'm sure the blogger is reading this after all the hits so she has her secret joy of superiority.

[dec13th]

I say "A" for effort and A+ for showing this group!

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Dec 20, 2012 13:38:47 GMT -5 karinothing said:

ha ha. Confession. I think they look like Hitler elves. Am I the only one that sees it?

I just spit out my water!

[gmail]

The BEST sugar cookie decorating tutorial ever.

Seriously.

www.annies-eats.com/2009/12/04/how-to-decorate-with-royal-icing/

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fwiw, I fully admit I suck at baking and there is no way I could attempt an elf. I can barely make a star cookie with a cookie cutter.

[womet]

Check out The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle. She only does cookies (unlike Annie) and I find her tutorials to be really helpful.

Kudos to you NQB for tackling this and for showing everyone your results. Cookie decorating is definitely not easy.

[abramos]

Dec 20, 2012 13:42:51 GMT -5 heyrebekah said:

I thought they were looking a little South Park before the had faces, but now I do see Hitler.

Good luck NQB!

Good for you as I would quit before the dough was done.

Wait, 7 DOZEN cookies?!?! That is alot of cookies..send some to me!

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Dec 20, 2012 15:33:07 GMT -5 gmail said:

The BEST sugar cookie decorating tutorial ever.

Seriously.

www.annies-eats.com/2009/12/04/how-to-decorate-with-royal-icing/

Did you happen to see who she linked on her last post? This cookie blog is amazing....

artymcgoo.blogspot.com/



HOW??? She has even more on there that are truly amazing.

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I would have more strenuously objected had I realized it was 7 dozen--so I am impressed you had the fortitude to even try that.

But this post is pretty much everything I thought it would be. I love that OP posted and has a sense of humor about this.

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Dec 20, 2012 16:36:27 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

I would have more strenuously objected had I realized it was 7 dozen--so I am impressed you had the fortitude to even try that.

But this post is pretty much everything I thought it would be. I love that OP posted and has a sense of humor about this.

Oh I didn't make 7 dozen elves. That was the original plan but I only made 9 elves - one for each person and two for the judges. I still had to make 11 other cookies per person though. Those were just circles with frosting on them.

[knitty]

You got beaten out in design by macaroons!

But I want to know where one buys ready made royal icing?

[aspentosh]

Yeah, I totally say Hitler Elf, too.

[wannabe]

I just realized something. The pens you used for the face are those icing things at the grocery store, right?

Bridget used these: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0020ZURDI

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Sorry NQB. You did give it a great try though! Flooding is so hard. I hate it.

[simplyinpenguin]

sorry. I disagree with the Hitler Elf. It looks like Cartman in a Santa suit. Lol!! Bet they were delicious though...

[jene]

Dec 20, 2012 13:38:26 GMT -5 tulips said:

Those kind of look like Cartman in a Santa suit!

I was just thinking this!!!

[cherry1111]

I love this thread. I hope you don't mind but this gave me a MUCH needed chuckle. A for effort.

[kateausten]

Best post of the day.

I love Hitler elves.

[whitepicketfence]

Oh, NQB. LOL!

You certainly get an A for effort.

[Deleted]

Another day in GBCN infamy--can you see the 'do you remember the Hitler elves post' now? Seriously, good effort though, hope all the cookies are yummy!

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Awesome.

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<hugs> NQB. You did great!

[chia]

I made some decorated sugar cookies... and, have found it much easier to use glaze, rather than royal icing, to do the flooding/fill in. You can't write on it like the royal icing. For the outline and some of the details, I've used candy melts melted in a ziploc bag with the corner cut off.

Example - these Elmo cookies. Red glaze, and everything else (except the pupils of the eyes - those are round candies) is candy melts. It was a LOT easier than other failures I've had with royal icing! Something to remember for next year!

This is the tutorial I used:
www.ourbestbites.com/2008/12/tutorial-cookie-decorating-with-glace-icing/

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I am so glad I finally opened this thread. :-(

Chia, those Elmos look really good!