Learning the Hard Way

At this point in our cookie decorating career, we decided to continue with the trial and error method. I guess we like learning things the hard way. With another wedding coming up, we had a chance to practice a new cookie design. The pink bow was cute, but we wanted to expand our horizons. We thought we already new everything about the first layer of icing, called flooding, so we zipped right through that stage and excitedly added the next layer, a purple sash across the cookie with a big purple button on the side. The next day when we went to check on our cookies, we found that the purple icing had spread across our cake in an ugly blur. Our trial and error method had taught us a good lesson: always let the flood icing dry overnight if you plan to decorate with a different color! No pictures this time - these cookies went in the trash.