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So, Dad's made the reservations and it's really last minute, but I'm going to Dallas next week.

I PLAN TO BAKE STUFF. 8D

I'm not quite sure about this, but I might need some people's new addresses. I kind of want to revisit stained glass cookies, but they were a lot of work. (But if I revisit the cookies, I should bring melon FruitGo.)




Seriously, this has potential.





The failures were spectacular- it took three batches to get it kind of right- and that's batches of dough- but I have goat and rhino cookie cutters. (The prettiest were the ones with the circle and smaller aspics inside, though.)

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[mythos.livejournal.com]

Those are amazing if they turn out good.

If.

/sobs

[ririkit.livejournal.com]

This was from um... two years ago, I think, so I forget the exact procedure, but the version I ended up using involved the Joy of Cooking's sugar cookie recipe with orange extract subbed for vanilla and crushed Jolly ranchers. (Choice of candy is important- Jolly Ranchers has pretty, pretty colors.)

The orange extract alone made an amazing difference, and choice of candy is super important. I also ended up proofing the cookies a little. (I baked it a little first, then pulled them out to add the candy, which messed up the shape a little, but when I didn't, the result was kind of like the one at the bottom.)

[mythos.livejournal.com]

I used Jolly Ranchers too! They just. WERE RETARDED and overdone and sob.

[ririkit.livejournal.com]

I think I spent hours on them. The end result was fairly impressive- I don't think the top picture quite does it justice, but it's the best photo I have. (In retrospect, letting it bake longer in the first stage would have produced a nicer golden-brown color, but the longer I leave it without the candy, the more the shape gets out of shape.

I think the cookies tasted better than the candy portion, but the candy part was so pretty. ;___;


That said, I don't bake that often, but when I do it's usually stupidly fancy cookies that require rolling ten gazillion one-inch balls and brushing with egg-white or rolling with powdered sugar. (It's also usually the same stupidly fancy cookies, because they're pretty and taste delicious.)