TGIF
(Thank God it’s Fall!)
After toasting all summer in the Texas heat, I always welcome the fall season with open arms. And to honor this wonderful change, a platter of cookies was most definitely in order!… Since brown is one of the official colors of fall, I decided to go with chocolate sugar cookies in place of of the typical white sugar cookie.
For a great chocolate sugar cookie recipe, click
http://lilaloa.blogspot.com/2011/03/end-all-for-chocolate-cookies-recipe.html.
Having a chocolate cookie base not only tastes great, but also prevents me from having to mix a batch of brown icing. And as a cookie decorator, I’m always looking for ways to make the best designs with the fewest icing colors.
Another thing I always try to do is mix up the patterns and designs that is iced onto the cookies. It’s amazing how you different you can make 2 cookies look with the icing alone, even if cut by the same cutter.
Some no-fail techniques that always work great on your cookies are: polka dotting (inside the cookie or as an outline around the edge), marbleizing (toothpick dragging between 2 colors of wet icing), and sprinkling (all or part of the cookie with sanding sugars and/or sprinkles). All three of these techniques can be used in a multitude of ways to make unique patterns on your fall cookies.
Happy Baking and a very happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
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