What's In Your Easter Basket?

If these adorable bunnies and eggs are all

that make it into my Easter basket this year,

I will be one happy person!!

These are some of the prettiest cookies I have

baked up.  I still consider myself quite the

beginner on flooded cookies even though I

went to Cookie Con last year, so I am

pleased with these beauties.

My friend Kathy has been asking me for some time

to show her how to make flooded sugar cookies 

so the other day I invited her and Pam over for a

lesson on making and frosting the cookies.  Of course 

I was a little nervous setting myself up as a teacher

when I don't feel like an expert, but I decided to

show them several options for decorating the cookies.

They loved how easy the rolled fondant was and

were surprised at how delicious it

tasted.  We put a little fondant in a tiny rose mold for

his little tail.

I demonstrated wet on wet, writing on dry, sugared

and piping on dry.  One trick I learned at Cookie Con

was using a food dehydrator to dry your cookies so I 

could demo those things that needed dry icing.

Just a few minutes in the food dehydrator after

flooding the icing and you can pipe on details.

Another while and you can write on it with

edible writing pens.  Some of these are

cookies they helped decorate.  I would say

they were great students!

They each left with several varieties

of cookies.

After they left I kept playing with the 
bunnies and eggs trying some scroll work.

The scrolls are piped with slightly thicker

frosting onto frosting that has set up.  (I took out

a small bowl of the frosting and covered it and set 

it aside before I thinned the frosting down for

the flooding.  This is what you pipe with.  It needs 

to pipe out easily.)

The trick to smooth lines is to lift your tip and

let the line of frosting fall onto the cookie

rather than dragging the tip along the

edge of the cookie.  Don't get discouraged.  It

all takes a little practice.  I had them practice

on parchment paper first.

Soon my Easter Basket was full of

pretty and delicious cookies.

I will be posting with

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