r/cookiedecorating

For a former reading teacher and garden lover!

Cookies for my granddaughter's 3rd birthday this weekend! It's a bubbles and water games party. I forgot to take pictures of the small round bubble cookies I also made before putting them in the freezer. LOL

I was originally asked to do 30 cookies but the customer upped it to 50. Logos are HARD. How is this a profitable line of work?! I do cakes and cupcakes mainly which are quite profitable but my husband advised I never take another cookie order again. Any tips? I’m pretty sure my consistency was wrong about 80% of the time so that’s something I need to work on.

I work as a cake decorator for a grocery store, and recently my manager threw 120 baby shower cookies at me and my team who know next to nothing about decorating sugar cookies.

At my work we use Brill White & Glossy icing to frost the cookies, and normally we just heat the icing and dip the cookies and that’s that. The past couple days I’ve been trying to treat the w&g like it’s royal icing, haven’t heated it up, and put it into piping bags and tried my best to work with decorating on top of a base layer of icing my coworkers did before I started in on them.

My problem is that I can’t stop getting bubbles even after popping them all (photos 1&2).Today I put away a tray of bear cookies and when I came back later to look at them, all the eyes had holes in them? My other colors of icing had the same issue, bubbles popping and making holes in my otherwise okay first attempt at decorating.

I did “helicopter” my bags and it helped a bit but it did not eliminate the issue.

Another issue is the discoloration of the icing on the base layer and on some of my outlines as well (photo 3). Does anyone know why or how this happens? It lightens the color and looks maybe like it’s crystallizing.

Is there any advice you wish you’d had when you started decorating cookies? Has anyone else had to use Brill White & Glossy to ice cookies before? Any tips would be appreciated.

My favourite project yet. Leftover dough and icing. I grated the white chocolate leftover from another project, and while trying to melt it, it kinda browned like real cheese- a happy accident. The gummy 'pepperoni' are cherry candies I cut up because my friend (these are for her birthday) loves a gummy❤️

As stated above, what would you love to see represented? Yes I can go with the generic rainbows, but I want to get to create something that is more personal to people. That will make people feel they are represented in a more personal way. So what would you love to see more of!

I know it's not perfect

All my grandkids have birthdays in the summer, so they don’t get to celebrate at school, so I bake cookies for them to take for the last week of school. This is just a fun “art project” for me, so be kind! 😀

This is the most ambitious thing I’ve ever made. I didn’t think it was possible and lots of flowers/stems broke in the process, but I’m obsessed with it. Honestly, I’m surprised with how well it turned out and it’s opened up possibilities for some new ideas!

Cookies are huge - about 6" wide and 8" tall. I hope they stay standing lol.