Peppa Pig and George cookies

Here is the photo which I used for my paper cookie cutter.

I print a copy and cut out near the lines. I put this on the dought and cut with a knife. I put down only the Pepa Pig photo, I did the same with George.

First I outlined and flooded the head and ears with light pink. After all heads was finish, I stated with outlining the dress with a darker red and then flooded with a lighter one. I left aproximatelly to dry for an hour and then drew the head details, the hands, the legs and the tail.

I made the same with George.

STRAWBERRIES/JAGODE

A friend had a birthday party with strawberry theme. I made this strawberries flower.

On the strawberries I first outline and immediatly flood the green. I leave them an hour to dry. In this hour I started with the flowers. First I outlined the flower. When I finished I started to flood the first one - the outline was dry. Then I take the strawberies where I outline and flood imediatlly the fruit with rose color. I flooded one at time because I made the yellow points and pulled them down with a toothpick. I took the flower again where I made the yellow centre. I left them to dry for aproximatelly one hour. Then I take the strawberries where I drew the green small star. At the end I made the final decorations on the flower. First I made the white lines then I made the small yellow points in the centre. 

For the flowers lines I start from the outlines of the petal to the centre, I want to have this "tear line", thicker then thinner.

BUTTERFLIES

I mixed the Americolor electric green and electric blue for this turquoise collor.

For the round cookies I first outlined the cookie with a light black. Then I flooded them with turquoise and the other with dark blue, made the lines on the wet cookies. Imediattely I made "the waves"with a toothpick.

I spent more time with butterflies. First I made the body and outline with black. After they dried, I first put the electric green in the edges, then I put a turquoise point in the middle of the up wings. Then I put a electic blue line. The rest of all wings I flooded with the dark blue. After all I made the electric green line in the middle and the electric blue point in the turquise point. I finished the decoration with a toothpick.

I love them!

EASTER BUNNIES / ŠARENI ZEČIĆI

Šareni zečići!

Stiže proljeće, brzo će Uskrs pa evo i mojih proljetnih cvjetića, uskrsnih jaja i zečića.

Umijesila sam tijesto od:

750 gr brašna (glatkog)
250 gr maslaca (ili margarina)
250 gr šećera u prahu
4 jaja
1 vanilijin šećer
1 pecilni prašak
strugana kora jednog limuna
prstohvat soli

Ostavila sam ga u frižideru pola sata. 
Kekse sam pekla od 15-20 minuta na temperaturi od 180 °C u već zagrijanoj pećnici ovisi o modelu i veličini keksa.

Kroz vrijeme sam prikupila različite izrezivače. Na ovaj sam emocionalno vezana, s njim mi je moja mama u djetinjstvu radila kekse...

Ovaj sam kupila u Plodinama.

A ovaj sam dobila nedavno na poklon.

Za glazuru sam koristila

3 bjelanjka
3 žlice limunovog soka
600 gr šećera u prahu

Pripremila sam boje. Žuta, narančasta,roza,zelena, plava i ljubičasta. Ja sam narančastu napravila miješajući žutu i crvenu, a ljubičastu miješajući roza i plavu.

Treba pogoditi točnu gustoću glazure. Na slikama se vidi kako mi je zelena ostala pregusta, keksi nisu glatki - poznaju se tragovi ukrašavanja. Nastavkom broj 3 sam iscrtala vanjski rub keksa, odmah sam ga ispunila istom glazurom. Keks sam tresla lijevo-desno kako bi se glazura zagladila. Sa strane u posebnoj vrećici imala sam bijelu glazuru nešto tečnije gustoće s kojom sam odmah - isti tren - nacrtala bijele točke. Tako se točke stope s glazurom.

Evo ih na tanjuru

EASTER COOKIES - CHICKS

Sugar Cookies:

390 gr (3 cups) all purpose flour

200 gr (1 cup) of white sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder (baking soda)

227 gr (1 cup) butter, room temperature

2 eggs

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Royal Icing with egg whites:

60 gr (2 large) egg whites

2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice

330 gr (3 cups) powdered sugar

Royal Icing with meringue powder:

440 gr (4 cups) powdered sugar

30gr (3 tablespoons) meringue powder

120 - 180 ml (1/2 cup - 3/4 cup) warm water

BUTTERFLY

Butterfly cookies with wet on wet technique 

OBLAK - CLOUD

Stalno pada kiša.....
odgođene maškare jednu subotu, pa drugu.... kad će konačno proljeće?!
I tako sam napravila kekse u obliku oblaka i u obliku kapi kiše. Nemam izrezivač u obliku oblaka pa sam izrezala cvijet koji sam razvukla.

Sa nastavkom broj 2 sam obrubila sa crnom bojom. Oblak sam ispunila sa bijelom koristeći nastavak broj 3, za kapi kiše koristila sam plavu. Odmah kako sam ispunila sam nacrtala crne detalje.

Isprobala sam i jednostavnije bez crne, isto nije loše....

SPRING COOKIES / PRIMROSE

I recived two primroses from my mother. So I had the inspiration to made primrose cookies.

I work with two different colors - gold and yellow.

First I outline with gold. I use a tip number 3 so the line was better definited. Immediatly I flooded with yellow, made first a gold star in the middle - extended with a toothpich in the petals, then I made a white dot, also extended with a toothspick. All "wet on wet" so is quickly finished!

Later I try to use other colors, but the most I prefer is the yellow one!

FLOWER COOKIES

For this cookies I used a new recipe. The cookies a soft and crispy. I had to be carefull with icing.

Ingredients:
280 gr flour
120 gr ground almonds
130 gr sugar powder
220 gr butter
2 egg yolks
grated one lemon
a pinch of salt

Combine all ingredients, wrap in a plastic wrap and let chill in fridge for 3 hours.
Adjust oven rack to middle and šreheat oven to 180°C
Pepare baking sheets.

On a clean, lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough. Use diferent sized flower cookie cutters. Continue untill all of the dough is used up and the baking sheets are full. Bake cookies until golden, about 15 minutes. Let cookies sit at room temperature about 5 minutes. Then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely. They are really so soft and crispy.

I left the two albumens from the cookies recipe and I made a classic royal icing (I earlier wrote the recipe)

The best is if you prepare the yellow centers the day before. On a baking paper I made round dots, sprinkled with sugar. I used the white sugar, but if you prefer you could color the sugar in yellow. It's important to have dried centers.

I outlined the cookies and immediatelly flooded. I separated the yellow dried centres from the baking paper and put in the middle of the flower. This is called "cookies transfer". After the transfer push carefully. I left dry for two hours. Then I outline the petals with lines and dots.
For example, you could dry the white flooded cookies without the centre, you could put it at the end of all decoration, after all outlines, lines and dots, but take care of the spaces between the cookie and the dot.

I made another easy decoration:

I also made pink ones. On this photo you can see also the different sizes:

CHERRY FLOWERS 2 - more details

This charry flowers is more detailed.

I used two different flower shaped cookies with 5 and 6 petals. I prefered the 5 one.
All is with the "wet on wet" technique. With a bigger tip outline the white petals, I used the number 3.

Immediatelly flood with the pink icing and made a line like in the photo. With a toothspick extend the red line to all petal.

Made a yellow center dot - only a dot - and left to dry. I left for two hours. 

Then I made yellow pistils and left for an hour. After that I made white dots and the cookies is finished!

CHERRY FLOWERS - spring is coming

This is my easy cherry flowers.
I baked two different cookies. I used a small one with 5 petals and the bigger one with 6. I like both.
I'm not spending time on coloring icing, only a small part of pink and yellow for pistils.
I put all white icing in one piping bag with the tip numer 2. I used the technique where I was outlining and flooding the same time, so the cookie is without the border. Immediately I put the pink. I calcolated aproximatelly the center where I made a pink line which I pulled with a toothspick.
I left to dry overnight.
Then I made the white lines and the white pistils. Put some yellow dots and here it is, my easy cherry flowers.