Velika božićna zvijezda

Smjesu sam napravila po tom receptu. Glazuru po ovom. Trebat će vam samo žuta i crvena boja, obe u rjeđoj i gušćoj varijanti. 

Kako je kod nas teško doći do odgovarajućih izrezivača keksa, ja sam za svoju verziju Božićne zvijezde koristila brkove i djetelinu s 4 lista. Napravila sam 22 latice i jednu djetelinu za sredinu.

S tom količinom tijesta stigne se napraviti 4-5 takvih zvijezda, ovisno o debljini na koju razvaljate tijesto.

Jednom pečene, složila sam ih na desertni tanjurić.

Najprije sam iscrtala i ispunila žutu sredinu kako bi se do kraja posušila i zadnje, nakon svih latica, sam na njoj iscrtala točkice gušćom glazurom.

Iscrtala sam vanjski rub i odmah ispunila latice s tekućom glazurom. Nakon 30-ak minuta, kad vidite da se napravila korica na njima, gušćom glazurom sam napravila crtu. Ostavite ih preko noći da se skroz posuše.

Zatim ih složite na tanjur, vaša je Božićna zvijezda spremna!

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.

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.