Showing posts with label decorating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decorating. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Creepy Cookie Cake

Creepy Cookie Cake

With Halloween around the corner, we want you to be prepared with one of the best recipes for the occasion. This recipe is quick, easy and tasty! I made it for Halloween a few years ago and it caught on with my friends and now they ask me to make it for every holiday!This recipe is quick, easy and tasty! I made it for Halloween a few years ago and it caught on with my friends and now they ask me to make it for every holiday!



What you need:


• 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened to room temperature

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 (8-ounce) container whipped topping (recommended: Cool Whip)
• 1 1/2 cups crushed chocolate sandwich cookies plus 10 whole cookies (recommended: Oreo)
• 1 (9-inch) chocolate pie crust




What to do:

1. Combine softened cream cheese and sugar in mixing bowl.
2. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until creamy.
3. Add sour cream and vanilla, beat until well combined.
4. Stir in cool whip and crushed cookies.
5. Spoon mixture into pie crust using a rubber spatula to spread evenly.
6. Refrigerate for 4 to 5 hours before serving.
7. Through a fine sifter, heavily sprinkle cocoa powder over the cake to make it look like dirt in a graveyard.
8. To make tombstone cookies scrape the cream filling out of chocolate cookies. Cut off ends of cookies so as to make a rectangular shape.
9. Using royal icing in a piping bag, pipe spooky decorations and words on the tombstone cookies. Examples: BOO, RIP.

By Hovig

Friday, 8 May 2015

MOTHER'S DAY SPRITZ COOKIES

 To All The Beautiful Mothers Out There.
Thank You For All You Do!

One relationship which is always with us is the one we share with our mothers. They are our guiding force and are responsible for making us who we are. Mothers also shape our lives and our personalities and crediting them for the same is something one should do at every opportunity. We might have our own individualistic approach in paying tribute to these amazing people in our lives, our mothers.


So to satisfy Mum's sweet tooth this Mother’s day why use your cookie press only at Christmas? The Cookie Pro ULTRA II Cookie Press includes disc shapes that are perfect for pressing Mother's Day cookies. Decorate them with Candy Melts candy and decorative sugars or nonpareils for a treat she'll treasure.


INGREDIENTS

WILTON COLOR RIGHT PERFORMANCE COLOR SYSTEM
$24.99 or Pink food colouring

WHITE NONPAREILS
$2.29 or Small white ball shape sprinkles

12 ounces White Candy Melts® Candy


Instructions

Step 1
Cookie Dough Colors Tinted

Use Color Right base colors and QuickCount color formula to tint cookie dough in the following shade:
--Pink: 1/2 spritz dough recipe + 3 P
--Yellow: 1/2 spritz dough recipe + 3 Y

OR a drop or two of pink food colouring

Step 2
Make cookies. Prepare dough and tint as directed above. Use cookie press to press cookies on cookie sheet. Bake and cool cookies.

Step 3
Decorate flower cookies. Use melted white Candy Melts candy in a cut parchment bag to outline petals. Chill until firm, about 3 to 5 minutes. Pipe dot center and sprinkle with white nonpareils. Chill until firm, about 3 to 5 minutes.

Step 4
Decorate ornament cookies. Use melted white Candy Melts candy in a cut parchment bag to drizzle cookies. Chill until firm, about 3 to 5 minutes.

Steph