Piping Practice

Since a holidays have been here, we wanted to have a small lovable Christmas cookies to celebrate. Plus, we can unequivocally have have use of of a season as a reason to have have use of of piping. Ive usually done flashy sugarine cookies a handful of times, though we consider we get a small bit improved any time we try them.

So of course we done ice thickk thickk thickk cream cones for Christmas.

Kidding. we kid. But we did have have use of of this ice thickk thickk thickk cream cone cookie knife to have something else.

I have a limited supply of Christmas cookie cutters, so we had to improvise, we see.

I similar to improvising.

Simply spin it upside down as well as it makes a great bottom figure for Santa.

Lots of Santas.

I used a recipe in a book, Cookie Craft to have these chocolate sugarine cookies.

Click here as well as go to page 7 as well as 16 for a recipes.

P.S. we love this book. Its fantastic if we wish to sense a ins as well as outs of cookie decorating.

So we used a figure of a cookie knife to lift several opposite Santa heads upon a sheet of paper. Then we done a few facial variations to assistance me practice.

My kind of homework.

After a cookies cooled, we drew a faces upon a cookies with an succulent ink pen, anticipating this would assistance me when we begin piping.

I can trace. Im a great tracer.

But not so great at piping. The drawings did help, though we have to tell we this stage had me a small worried.

They dont demeanour so hot, huh?

I consider it would be easier with larger shapes, though.

The knife we used was about 3 inches tall. So a mustaches as well as such were unequivocally small.

Small for me anyway.

But we piped as well as flooded forward.

And thank goodness we kept going, With a assistance of a small sprinkles as well as sugarine crystals as well as an succulent ink pen they all incited out pretty cute.

I unequivocally consider a opposite textures assistance lift off a look.

Some have lovable flushed cheeks.

Some have big brows.

Some have curly locks.

And a fun part is

if we shift a sketch upon a inside of a ice thickk thickk thickk cream cone figure as well as have have use of of opposite colors of stately ic! ing

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Youll finish up with a small of Santas small helpers.

So, dont give up.

Pipe on. Practice makes good.

Im still perplexing for perfect, though we consider we need to have flashy cookies some-more than once or twice a year.

Guess Ill just have to keep playing.

It is honeyed fun.

And if we wish to play, too we can have up a downloadable template of opposite Santa faces using simple shapes similar to ice thickk thickk thickk cream cones, circles, or hearts as a bottom so we can have your own If we like.

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