Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Cookie Writing

Last week I attended a two hour 'Cookie Writing' evening class at Cakes 4 Fun in Putney. It was a chance to go along and learn about a variety of different ways to write on and personalise your bakes. Many of these ideas can be used on larger cakes but for ease and due to the limited time, we tried out our new skills on cookies.
As you can see below we used royal icing for piping by hand, this is quite tricky and requires a bit of practice. There were also edible images, if you're feeling really keen you can print these yourself by using purchasing edible ink and using a designated printer for edible images!

Tappits can be used to give a nice uniform finish, as well as regular cutters to give the finish you can see in number 4. Finally, why not just style your own writing out of rolled sugarpaste, or alternatively you can use edible pens to write straight on! All of these suggestions are great ways of adding the personal touch to your cakes and cookies and as always the Cakes 4 Fun team came up with some fab designs and a great colour scheme which ties all the cookies together! 
1. Piping with Royal Icing                                           2. Edible Images

3. Tappits                                                                      4. Cutter

5. Rolled sugarpaste                                                     6. Edible Pen

I don't want to give too much away as if you want to learn more and find out how to use each of the methods properly, I'd definitely recommend going on the course. Cakes 4 Fun always run great classes and the tutors are lovely, so if you're ever in this neck of the woods, give it a go! :-)

11 comments:

  1. Looks so fun! Thank you for sharing, Laura!

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  2. I love all the different styles of cookie writing! Have a great week!

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  3. They're brilliant, I really like them. The eat me cookie is my favourite :-)

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  4. Another awesome course! You must have been on all of them already ;) I bought some tappits at Cake International and tried them out - they didn't work on sugar sheets but worked well on rolled icing.

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  5. All your cookies look fab. Especially the eat me one is the cutest. Must have been a fun workshop :D

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  6. Wow. They look absolutely stunning.

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  7. Laura they look so professional and neat you are a girl after my own heart! Love them - youshould enter some in homemade by fleurs competition for jubille baking they would totally win!

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  8. Great cookies! You've won an award on my blog - check it out.

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  9. OMG OMG OMG these look AMAZING I have this HUGE addiction for cookie cutters but they never really look very good maybe I should do a lesson too :D Really LOVE them!!! Well done ;)

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  10. AMAZING!!!! Well done on your fabulous cookie icing skills. I would love to learn how to do this. I wonder if there are any courses up North?

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  11. Incredible post. The photos are lovely and the biscuits look absolutely perfect! I'm so glad I stumbled across your blog.

    xx Maria
    http://themixing-bowl.blogspot.com/

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