Cookie decorating

[1] The artistic element of cookie making also can be traced back to Medieval Germany where Lebkuchen was crafted into fancy shapes and decorated with sugar.

The story of "Hansel and Gretel " published with Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 inspired German gingerbread cookie Christmas cards.

[1] A springerle mold or press (carved rolling pins) is used to imprint a picture or design on to a cookie.

Eventually, the cookies were decorated with secular scenes depicting images of life events, such as marriages and births.

[1]Food historians also trace the artistic element of cookie making back to Medieval Germany where Lebkuchen (gingerbread) was crafted into fancy shapes and decorated with sugar.

[6] During the 17th century, guild employed master bakers and artisans created intricate works of art with their gingerbread houses and cookies.

[5] In 1812, Grimm's Fairy Tales was published,[7] and the tale of "Hansel and Gretel" inspired 19th century bakeries to add to their fanciful gingerbread entourage, decorated gingerbread cookie Christmas cards and finely detailed molded cookies.

[2] Many a Victorian Christmas tree was adorned with decorated cookies in the shapes of animals and gingerbread men.

For example, in honor of a 50th wedding anniversary, a photograph of the couple's first car could be sent to a company, and the cutter would be custom made to depict this.

In this case, as with many of the decorated cookies Dubois made for the president, his family and their guests, the traditional royal icing was used, a mixture of raw egg whites, powdered sugar, and a drop of lemon juice.

[9] Due to health issues with raw egg consumption, such as salmonella, an egg-free variation of royal icing is sometimes alternatively used by decorators.

Pasteurized refrigerated egg whites are sold at grocery stores for a safer traditional recipe.

Then the design is filled by piping a line of glaze back and forth across the cookie, while staying within the boundaries of the outline.

The web is created by dragging a toothpick in a straight line from the center across the spiral to the outer edge.

decorating bags,one filled with white icing and another with black, and both fit with small round tips.

For example, to create a lace heart, a patch of white fondant is rolled out first on a silicone mat.

The heart shaped fondant is then peeled off the silicone mat carefully so as not to mar the embossed design.

Some of these have been approved for human consumption in other countries, such as Easy Leaf's edible gold and silver in Italy.