On a normal Sunday, not much of a chance. But today there is a Gingerbread House party! And I happened to mention to the lady in charge that I couldn't stay because I had to bake cookies, and that I was hoping to have better luck finding meringue powder today. Well, just who happened to have an extra can of the stuff (leftover from their supplies for the house building)?
So anyway, I've made my first test batch. I'm going for that shiny, hard, colorful icing look, using this method.
Here's my first attempt. I'm testing piping the border, the flow icing consistency and coloring:
What I learned so far:
1. I like this icing recipe better than the one I used yesterday. That took too long to dry.
2. Don't stir the extra water into the flow icing too fast...it will create air bubbles.
3. I'm gonna need lots more powdered sugar!
I'm gonna whip up some more icing samples, then get back to baking.
And my test samples from yesterday are gone. The kids at church LOVED them.
Finally, if you don't believe in miracles, just think about this. I made at least 200 cookies yesterday, and did not eat even one!
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