hellooo....i'm making a bunch of soft sugar cookies for a halloween work party next week. my plan is to use purple icing, then pipe on a white spiderweb and a little black spider. my problem is, i don't want to use royal icing because i want them very yummy...i have a great bc type frosting recipe that i would like to use, but i'm worried that they won't hold up to stacking. wondering if anyone has any recomendations as to how to make the bc more "sturdy"....would adding protein such as egg whites or meringue powder do the trick?...and if so, could i add that to piping gel, or just use white bc for the web.....i really want these to be perfect as i'm hoping to get some orders off of this crowd!! thanks in advance for any suggestions.
glace icing, ones its dry, tends to survive stacking, not so great if you want detailed piping though.
no advice on your bc thoughts though. but you could always use chocolate instead!
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i thought of making white chocolate webs!!...but i was worried they might crack when stacked...i think i'm way overthinking!!!...have you ever stacked w/ chocolate?
I usually outline in royal icing first and then flood with a karo syrup glace. It dries hard enough to stack and once it is dry, I decorate on top with royal. It's kind of a pain to make 2 different kinds of icings, but those who have had it really like it and haven't ever had anything like it (the glace) so I keep using it =)
laurs_1981~
I make the normal RI, but I doctor it up with 1 TBL of butter and 1 TSP vanilla and 1 TSP butter flavoring.
The butter keeps the RI from getting rock hard, but it will still set up nice for stacking. The flavor is great and I get raves on it all the time.
Happy baking!
thank you cookie_fun...what a great idea!!!...i'm so excited to try this!!
Why not add lemon or orange extract to royal, i dont see why royal Cant be yummy too, try some different flavours you might find one you really like
interesting. do you beat the butter in with the sugar first before adding the water, or do you just add the butter at the end?
Luv2bake6~
I add the butter at the very end. You will see how it changes the consistency of the RI. But I can pipe with it stiff like normal RI and I also am able to thin it down and use it to flood.
Also, I just recently tried adding creme bouquet and the cookies were SO, SO good!
cookie_fun: does your RI recipe use egg whites or meringue powder?
If you haven't tried Antonia74's RI recipe (in the recipe section), you might want to give it a go... I use it all the time and everyone raves about the cookies.
i used the antonia74 RI recipe, then added some clear vanilla, and butter flavourings....i was worried cause it tasted HORRIBLE when it was wet...but once it dried it tasted really good....it was surprisingly easy to work w/ too....i spend hours making little spiders and flowers and letters, and webs this week!!!....thank you all for you suggestions and help...funny that my post started w/ "anything but royal icing" and that's when i ended up with!!!!...i also added meringue powder to my buttercream and my cookies stacked wonderfully!!!...i'll post some pics after work...thanks all
laurs, I though the same thing about the RI. You should have seen my first batch of cookies a few years ago...I added so much vanilla flavoring I thought my family was going to get drunk from eating the cookies! It tastes fine on the cookies though. : )
Ever think of using fondant as your base? There are a few great homemade recipes here on CC.
oh my gosh!!!!...i ran into a lady in the elevator the other day when i was bringing my plate of spider web cookies to work...and she asked me if i had a business, and i just told her my name and that i was in the phone book....well when i got home from work she had already left me a voicemail!!!!...she's the wife of a local orthodontist and wants to do something different for the 30 referring dentists they have for christmas this year!!!...i'm meeting w/ her after work...i am SOOOOOOOOO excited!!!!!
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