Happy New Year everyone🥳🥳🥳2020 New Year Icing Cookies 🍪🍪🍪

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Happy 2020 Icing Cookies

Happy New Year everyone! Cheers to my first working day in 2020 (trust me, I am not that excited at all lol 😅😅😅). I made a few sets of 2020 New Year Icing Cookies 🍪🍪🍪 for my friends and family❤️ I just use a basic cookie recipe as the base, royal icing and edible gold paint for decoration. You will be amazed at how much a little icing outlining can pretty up a cookie. Don’t let the writing part intimidate you, it comes naturally✌🏼If you aren’t quite confident with piping, just use edible writing pens, they come in different colours. Nothing is more comfortable than your own natural motions.  Just relax and don’t over think it💪🏼

Full video tutorial: here

INGREDIENTS

Cookies: Just use your favourite cookie recipe

Wilton meringue powder

Charcoal powder – to make black icing

Deco-relief metallic sand gold colouring

Edible black writing pen

STEPS

This easy royal icing recipe is hardly 3 steps and can be easily coloured!

1. Beat all ingredients (3 tablespoons meringue powder, 4 cups icing sugar and 5 tablespoons warm water) together until icing forms peaks (7-10 minutes at low speed with a heavy-duty mixer, 10-12 minutes at high speed with a hand-held mixer).
2. Add water slowly until the desired consistency is reached.
3. Separate into bowls and add food colouring!

• For stiff icing consistency: Use 1 tablespoon less water.
• For flood icing consistency: Add 1 teaspoon water per cup of royal icing and add water slowly until you can see the icing is quite liquid and thin.

Decoration

1. Outline each cookie using thin consistency white royal icing
2. Fill the 2020 cookies using stiff consistency white royal icing and fill the rest with thin consistency white royal icing
3. After you filled each cookie, tap the cookie slightly (be gentle…don’t break the cookies) to take out the air bubbles
4. For 2020 cookies, use a ball tool to make some holes on the icing surface
5. Chill the cookies at room temperature until dry. I used a food dehydrator to speed up the process, it took around 20-30 minutes
6. Dilute the gold paint with alcohol (I used Volka)
7. Paint the cookies with two coats of gold paint, the colour will be more vibrant with 2 coats
8. Create different texture with different brush, I only slight brushed on the gold paint on star (thin brush) and plaque shaped cookies (flat blush)
9. Use black icing to write on cookies and decorate the ribbon
10. I used the edible writing pen to write ‘Subscribe’ and ‘FB/IG/YT’
11. I used royal black icing to write ‘BakeBud’ and ‘Happy New Year’
12. Cool completely

Also, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone in this community. Thank you for all the likes, follow and subscribe across all social medias. I have learnt a great deal from this community, different food cultures, all amazing talented cooks, mouth-watering recipes and a space to ask questions. Thank you for being so generous in sharing your knowledge, stories and questions. Huuuugggee inspirations. Thanks to the admins and mods for your effort in making this group such a great community. I have great new ventures to start in 2020, I am nervous and excited. I am sure you all have different goals and challenges in 2020, all the best to you all and ROCK ON 2020🎆🍾🥳🥂🍻

bon appetit