I want to make some cookies that look like a baseball is breaking it. Are there some large types of sugar crystals that might look like "glass"? And what color would you use blue or clear?

Any other ideas would be welcome, too!

Thanks,
Kathi

Anyone?? You guys are all so creative, surely someone has an idea!!

Kathi

I'm not sure about the sugar crystals but it might be neat to try one of those stained glass cookies, where you put some crushed up hard candies in to the area you are trying to fill, and then bake them.

You could make it look like a window...not sure about how it would look broken.

Here's a link to what I am talking about http://allrecipes.com/recipe/stained-glass-window-cookies/detail.aspx

I made stained glass cookies once with broken up fruit life savers. Really cool. Making it look broken, don't know. HTH

What if you made a ball with RI and let it harden overnight, then paint it with red lines to make it look like the baseball. Then place on a an iced cookie. Paint lines around the ball to look like shattered glass. Make sense?

My plan was to make square/rectangle cookies to look like a window with either a royal icing/fondant baseball looking like it was "entering" the window. I was hoping to use the sugar crystals or something to look like shards that are falling. I wanted the majority of the window to be iced, since I need to make 75 of these. Do you think the large sugar "sprinkles" will do this?

Thanks,
Kathi

honestly I wouldn't even bother with the sugar.....I'd just do some white mmf for the background and do maybe a shade of light grey to represent the cracking of the window and maybe do a window sill or whatever around the edge of the window ...I think people will understand what it's suppose to be......those thingies people stick on their car windows look like REAL broken glass and there isn't any crystals on them!

ya know, i think i agree with khalstead. keep it simple, people will still easily understand. with the sugar, it *may* look too cluttered. though i am sure it could look good, it seems like extra work.

I think I'll experiment this week without the sugar and see how it looks. I have to make up some cookies for some holiday prototypes anyway.

Thanks for the different idea.

Kathi

Maybe you could make the stained glass, and actually try breaking it (carefullyof course, not with a hammer!) and then secure the broken pieces with piping gel, or maybe bake the lifesavers OFF the cookie in a square cookie cutter, break it, and assemble onto the cookie?? Maybe you could use the tropical lifesavers with the white ones in it?
Kathi