Cookie Design Practice #2: The Little Blue Shoe

Second attempt at designing cookies. More description later.

Happy weekend everyone!

Aikko

Cookie Design Practice #1: The Little Black Dress

I attended a friend's wedding last month and I saw one of her friends, a girl wearing a pretty black dress. Cielo and I wondered how the skirt beautifully ballooned. My guess is that she's wearing a petticoat under it but... hindi a uso ang petticoat ngayon.

Anyway, this inspired me to do a "cookie version" of the dress.

I don't like how the it turned out but I guess you won't always get it right the first few times.
For my first attempt I made to piping the dots. However, I got so impatient I checked in on it every few moments or so. What happened then almost made me throw the cookie to the garbage bin... I got clumsy I nearly dropped it. Good news is that I didn't drop it. Bad news - it broke into two and many dots got rearranged! Aaarghhh, I have to do it again!

The dress as I remembered it didnt have shoulder straps but I think it adding the straps would be a nice deviation from the original design.

After baking the cookie I prepared the black royal icing so I can pipe the borders.

Then comes the fun part - flooding the cookie. Here, I added a bit of water to the royal icing to make it "runny" and poured some into the cookie. Using a toothpick, I gently made round strokes to fill the empty spaces.

Polkadots!!!

Lastly, I added the belt. I nice contrast to black and white.


Still happy cupcaking! (But currently on cookie mode)

Aikko

Pinoy Cupcake: Maria Clara Cupcakes

This is actually a red wine cupcake.



But instead of using red wine, I used Maria Clara, a locally produced sangria. First tasted this when I was in college on the way home from a trip to Mt Banahaw for our PI 1oo class. Love the taste, fruity and not that strong.





The sangria is made by the oldest distillery in the Philippines (it says so in the bottle) :)

Since December 30 just passed, this is also my tribute to Pepe's 113th death anniversary. I've been meaning to bake this months ago, but since I got busy, I wasn't able to find time till now.

Happy Cupcaking!

Aikko

ps. this is the second to the last post for my Pinoy Cupcake series. Masarap maging makabayan pero it's also nice to try other things :) Tagay!

Our New Year Cake

This is the cake I made for our New Year Celebration - a healthier version of the peach cake I recently learned to make.

Instead of canned peaches and table sugar, I used grated carrot and Splenda and no cream cheese frosting. It's drier than the usual result but still as yummy. Made me appreciate sugar more.

Happy cupcaking,

Aikko