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Learn How To Create Innovative Cutout Cookies Using Different Shapes

By Cooking In Season, 26 April, 2010, No Comment

Cookies are one of the most well-liked products from the bakery. They appeal to kids of all ages and are a special day delicacy along with an every day goodie. Cut-out sugar or butter cookies are sometimes signature items of cookie decorating departments.

Creations are only limited by your imagination, so have an abundance of decorated cookies ready for the customers daily. Merchandise them in display cases, and present them packaged, particularly around holidays and community events.

Dip cookies in a hard fondant-type or quick drying roll/donut icing, or ice them in traditional buttercream. Decorate the cookies with buttercream or royal icing. Royal icing dries hard, which makes it easier to move, but doesn’t have the smooth mouthfeel of buttercream. With a little imagination, you may turn an individual cookie cutter into many different “shapes” by varying your decorations.

The oval shape cookie cutter offers a wealth of decorating possibilities. Turn it into an Easter egg and even a fried egg. Or, ice the complete cookie with chocolate fondant, and pipe white lines to create a football. Other options include a bubbly fish or a rainbow on a cloud.

A shamrock can become an assorted cast of characters. Use writing tips to pipe a face on an upside-down shamrock. Or, turn it on its side to pipe on a butterfly. Ice a clown cookie green, and add a black hat and grey hair to make a witch. Or, flip the clown upside down, and decorate it to look like an ice cream cone.

The dinosaur, a favourite among kids, becomes a dog with a few changes in decorating technique. Or, turn the form upside down to form a cactus. An apple/pumpkin shape could be turned into a woman with her hair in a bun. Or, turn the form on its side for a human profile. Flip it upside down, and decorate it as a tree.

The most well-liked and adaptable cutter is the round. A baseball, sunflower, clock, Santa or dog represent just a few options. The star shape poses a challenge as it remains a star despite how you turn it. Nonetheless, by changing the way you decorate the shape, it will become a snowflake or a badge.

Gingerbread men can start life earlier than Christmas. Turn them into ghosts, scarecrows, snowmen and gingerbread gals. A Halloween ghost could be made right into a Christmas elf.

The Christmas tree can develop into a year-round cutter. Beautify it as a troll with long, spiked hair. In the summer, turn the tree upside down, ice it entirely in red, and pipe white dots and green leaves to get a strawberry. Or, decorate it as an ice cream cone. In the autumn, turn the tree on its side, and decorate a leaf.

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