Recipe for the Icing:
60 ml egg whites
1 ml cream of tartar
1000 ml icing sugar
15 ml lemon juice
Whip on high for two minutes, until smooth. If too thick, add a touch more lemon juice.
To adjust, simply stir in a few drops more cream to thin, or another teaspoon of powdered sugar to thicken, repeating (or alternating between the two)
Dries quickly, so make in small batches or keep covered and sealed (damp paper towel or in ziplock bag)
Recipe for Cookies:
125 ml margarine
185 ml icing sugar
1 egg yolk
2 ml vanilla
1 ml almond extract
275 – 300 ml flour
2 ml baking soda
2 ml cream of tartar
1. Preheat oven
2. Grease cookie sheet
3. Put margarine in large mixing bowl and beat on low speed with
electric mixer. Gradually add icing sugar, egg, vanilla and almond
extract. Mixture should be light and creamy.
4. Measure and sift flour. Gradually add to margarine mixture with
baking soda and cream of tartar.
5. Roll dough ¼ inch thick on a lightly floured counter.
6. Cut into shapes and place on cookie sheet leaving 1 inch
in between
7. Bake 7-8 minutes (or until golden brown on the edge)
Two things that went well:
The icing process turned out way better than expected, it was a very simple process and doing the flooding was very fun
The cookies themselves went well; they had a way better taste then our first trial batch
Two things that could have gone better:
It was a bit challenging to try and get the icing to be the right consistency for the flooding process, for flooding the icing needs to be fairly "liquidy"
It was hard to come up with different designs to fit into the circle, there's so many things you can do with a circle it's just a matter of how you do it.
Inspirations:
I took many different inspirations for my share of the cookies,
First was the Weezer, Self-titled album Weezer:
The Brand of Sacrifice from Berserk:
Toge Inumaki's Cursed Technique Symbol from Jujutsu Kaisen:
Photos of all the cookies:
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