Every year I make gingerbread snowflake cookies with my treasured Martha Stewart copper snowflake cookie cutters(9)...understand they are collectors' items now. I use a good stiff gingerbread dough(reason I got a BIG Kitchenaid mixer since I burnt out the motor when I made these the first time with my Mother's old Sunbeam stand mixer). That's day one. Day two I decorate them with white royal icing in intricate designs and add dragees. My right hand hurts for two days afterwards. Each is packaged in a decorative cellophane bag and given to friends/family. Understand some eat them(being careful to avoid the dragees with their teeth), but most hang them on their Christmas trees. I found an image on the internet of these cookies made with the same MS cutters...printed that and used it to fill the jar image. Added highlights with white acrylic and shading with Copics.
It is too early for me to make the cookies yet....who wants stale cookies?? I have never photographed them, but maybe I should.
TFL
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2016 GMT Views: 2052
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