Just for fun...

Yesterday, I decided to do something just for me. I don't mean that I will be eating all of the cookies myself, but I felt it was time that I made something that I would find fun while trying out some techniques. I tried a new sugar cookie recipe and it is perfect...really soft and almost breakable...my last one would get rock hard after a day or so. I finally found meringue powder and made royal icing with that instead of egg whites, and behold, the icing is way prettier when it dries! Instead of using brown colour, I used cocoa powder to get the royal icing dark-it worked and it tastes way better!!! (Plus I didn't even go looking on the internet, just thought I would try it out, see what happens...) And then I basically just had fun with the actual cupcake designs, and the little mini cupcake cookie! Even put some coloured coconut on one of them!! The other ones with the lines didn't quite work out, my hand was shaking this morning, as if I was coming off some kind of substance...sugar? Anyway, that's it...my next posting should be the red velvet whoopie pie, that is my challenge!!! In the meantime, I will go enjoy my cocoa, coconut, vanilla and sprinkly cookies! Mmm, sometimes everything works out as you intended...