Ok, I said this morning it would take much longer for me to put these up, but they were pretty dry and I went ahead and decorated... I made these for my friend Martine who is Enfin (finally) moving in to her brand new home this weekend. They waited a long time, and it was very nerve racking...so there you go. I wanted to try a bunch of things here, so here : first, the chocolate cookie cutout recipe. Worked fantastically. Super nice to eat, much better than sugar cookies. Secondly, the cat was made on an acetate and transferred. Made 3 in case I would break them, but they all survived. 2 still went in the garbage as I needed only 1. Thirdly, the wet on wet icing look, with a few different techniques, including my favorite, the ones with the flower branches. For it to work better though, would have to go for stronger colours. And lastly, the fancy finishing around the cookies. The dots went well, the flourishes, a bit less, I got the consistency a bit wrong again, and to be honest, I don't know how to make a nice finish on a circle. On the squares, you can always finish on a corner, but the circles come right back to the start and you sort of mess up the first one to finish the last. All in all, I think I now know more about consistency-I have to make it more runny than my autumn cookies, but less than these. And otherwise, I just hope they will be liked! What do you guys think? Oh yeah, the cat is because they have a cat...I didn't just want to make a cat...!!!
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