Hi,

I saw some lovely iced cookies here a few days ago but unfortunately I can't remember whose cookies they were

I have never made cookies, let alone icing them. LOL

My son's 5th birthday will be in 2 weeks time and i'd love to make/decorate some cookies/cupcakes to take to his day care (instead of a cake).

I need to know the following:

1) recipe for the icing. Not sure what to put on the cookies yet but the
theme is Lunar Jim (www.lunarjim.com).

I have tried piping at one of my cake deco class and i am bad at it so am thinking perhaps doing 3D rather than using piping. What do you think?

2) recipe for cookies please.

3) recipe for icing for cup cakes please

4) how to iced cookies?

5) how to iced cupcakes?

Sorry I am so many questions. I am a beginner. Since this is a cake decorating forum, I will also post this same question in the cookies section.

thanks

I haven't made these but I read about how great they are all the time on here.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2055-27-No-Fail-Sugar-Cookies.html


Same with the icing. Rave reviews from everyone here at CC.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1983-32-Royal-Icing-for-Decorated-Cookies.html

Those recipes are great. To ice a cookie, Make the royal icing at a thick consistency and pipe the outline of the design you want. Let it set until it hardens a bit and then thin out your icing to fill in the wells you've created.

I love the no fail sugar cookis recipie from this site especially for cutouts it works great. If your not too sure of your icing skills you can cover the cookies in MMF VERY good and VERY easy just use the same cutter on the MMF as you use on the cookie. here is a Pict of some that I did for a halloween party the accents are in buttercream. I just use a cake mix for cupcakes with regular buttercream so I dont know if thats any help at all. HTH be sure to pst a pict after you get them done no matter what you decide on! GOOD LUCK

I have just made the no fail sugar cookies from CC for the first time They taste great and have held there shapes really well.

Have fun whatever you decide on

There is a good article by Antonia here on cc on how to ice cookies

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:42 pm

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Everything you ever wanted to know about cookies and some recipes:

http://tinyurl.com/y6a7kk

Recipes for cookies & frosting from CC:

http://tinyurl.com/sprb5

http://tinyurl.com/v728g

And how to paint with royal icing:

http://tinyurl.com/y62xqt

Everything you ever wanted to know about cupcakes:

http://tinyurl.com/ucnzd

http://tinyurl.com/yjgj9x

HTH

P.S. I don't know why this didn't post.....

JanH--Thanks for posting that website. They have some really cute stuff and great prices. K'ly

Here's the step-by-step article I did for this site, complete with photos:


http://www.cakecentral.com/article54-How-To-Bake--Decorate-Cookies.html

KlyKat,

My pleasure!

Thanks for your suggestoins and tips everyone. sorry i haven't replied till now. I'm rather new still here and had trouble finding this post. LOL

I'll have to check out these links and tried them out. I am sure once i have donw that, i'll have better questions to ask.

Thanks so much again for all your help!

If I do make any and they turn out ok, will be sure to post.