Transferring Character Onto Cookie Surface....argh
Baking By ValMommytoDanny Updated 29 Jan 2007 , 12:52am by ValMommytoDanny
Ok... my son who is 8 today is driving me nuts. I asked his teacher if we could bring in cookies or cupcakes for his birthday on Monday to school. She said cookies as cupcakes are messy (broad is nuts ~ who would turn down cupcakes... but anyhoo 
) He decided he wanted this "captain underpants" character that he loves on the cookie~well only after going through Ed, Edd, & Eddy and the Kids Next door characters... I am thinking, ok seems simple enough so I went to the website and downloaded the ok to download pages for a pic. I can't get this cookie to look right to save my neck. I have got to be dumb or something. 
Anybody have any tricks on how to "transfer" an image on a cookie?
I baked big 5" rounds so its a blank canvas right now. Just a simple cartoon character and my fingers are in knots... what gives?
(no copier here yet..working on that... come on tax refund, momma needs a printer for edible ink. )
Thanks so much for all of your help ! 
I hate to even admit I tried this once (years ago) and it didn't turn out great but here goes. I did the design just like a fbct but used RI, once it dried I flip it onto the cookie glued it down with RI. The only problem was the frosting didn't have that nice finished look but very dull since it was the "other side" that was now showing. You could try this but you'd have to basically fill on the colors back in to give it a nice look. Alot of extra work though. I'm sure someone else has a MUCH better idea.
I have tried tracing the image with a pencil (graphite pencil is nontoxic - check the label) onto a square of parchment paper. Then, flip the parchment paper over and place pencil side down onto the cookie (use royal to ice cookie and let dry first). Trace back over image with pencil again (does this make sense?). By retracing, the pencil marking will transfer onto the cookie. It works better if the image is large and doesn't have a lot of details. Good luck! 
If the design is simple you could outline your image with piping gel and press onto the cookie. Then you could fill it in with your royal icing. Now mind you I have not tried this so I'm not sure if it would work but it sounds good on paper. Let us know how it goes.
Jacqui
You can make an impression template out of royal icing. On a piece of cardboard, trace a reverse image of your character with a line of royal icing. Let dry. Then, you can cover your cookie with fondant and impress the royal icing template into that. Or, you can paint a little color onto the royal template and 'stamp' the design onto the cookie. You'll need to make several templates because the royal does tend to break after a few uses.
OMG, fantastic information! Thanks so much for your help.
I am going to try each and every one of them ~ I did try the transfer with RI and lemme tell ya it didn't work ~ probably was me not the method...
will let you know how I make out.
Thanks again!
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