Cupcake and heart sugar cookies
Not real cupcakes, but I had a great deal of fun decorating these, although the results are admittedly clumsy. I have two left hands, at best, but these were still fun to do, therapeutic with music and the aircon on. Have to perfect a sugar cookie recipe though. Tried these with the original amount of sugar, part icing, part granulated, and the dough was still hard to handle. It doesn't roll or cut well, and the cookies spread a great deal during baking. In fact, the cupcake shapes were unrecognisable, and to salvage them, I cut them after they were baked – hence the rough edges.
The hearts came out better, maybe because heart-shapes have more definition in the first place. I tried some designs from Cookie Craft on them.
Fun. I like that these are more project-like, with the various stages of icing, and more arty, with the colours and designs. I also love how easy clean-up is, the icing washes away with none of the horrid cling of buttercream since it's mainly sugar. And of course I love the excuse to buy more equipment! :)
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