Dana Meachen Rau - Smart Cookie: Designing Creative Cookies

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Dana Meachen Rau writes about many topics, including food! When shes not writing,shes being creative in other waysespecially in the kitchen. Sometimes she followsrecipes, but other times she experiments with new flavors. And she doesnt need aspecial occasion to whip up a special dessert for her friends and family in Burlington,Connecticut.

After a thunderstorm the skies clear, and nature treats you to an amazing colorfuldisplay. Bring a rainbow into the kitchen with a 3-D display of your own.

INGREDIENTS

edge icing

red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple food coloring

2 large round sugar cookies

flood icing

1 chocolate covered caramel

10 pieces yellow candy buttons

Tip:

Experiment with piping tips to get the look you want when decorating with icing.Round tips are great for outlining details. Basket weave tips can make long, ribbedstripes.

If using a zip-top plastic bag, experiment with how you snip the tip of the bag.Cut it small for detailed decorations or wide to cover large areas.

1. Divide the edge icing into eight bowls. Keep one bowl white. Tint six of the bowlsinto the colors of the rainbow. Tint the last bowl a light blue. Place the icingsinto eight piping bags.

2. Cut one cookie in half. On one half, use white icing to pipe half a cloud shapein the right-hand corner. With the red icing, pipe an arch along the outer edge ofthe cookie to meet the cloud. Repeat with the orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

3. Divide the flood icing into two bowls. Keep one bowl white. Tint the other lightblue.

4. Spoon white flood icing into the cloud shape. Then spoon blue flood icing intothe small arch under your rainbow. Use a toothpick to spread the icing. Set the cookieaside for about 30 minutes until the icing hardens.

5. Next, pipe a ring of light blue edge icing around the outer edge of the full cookie.Pipe a cloud shape on the right side with the white edge icing. Spoon white floodicing into the cloud shape and blue flood icing onto the rest of the cookie.

6. While the flood icing is still wet, place the rainbow upright on top. Match upthe clouds on both cookies.

7. Cover the bottom of a chocolate covered caramel with yellow edge icing. Stickthe candy buttons to the icing to look like gold coins. Place your pot of gold atthe end of the rainbow.

8. Let the cookie sit for a few hours to completely harden.

Makes 1 rainbow

Youre one smart cookie. So are owls. These wise birds wont help you with your homework.But they know a lot about being delicious!

INGREDIENTS

edge icing

purple, blue, and brown food coloring

1 large round sugar cookie

flood icing

2 white candy wafers

1 orange jelly bean

yellow fruit leather

1. Divide the edge icing into three small bowls. Add purple food coloring to one,blue to another, and leave the third white.

2. With the purple edge icing, pipe a half-circle shape onto the top half of thecookie. Pipe triangles down each side.

3. With the blue icing, complete the circle by piping a line to connect the bottomsof the two triangles.

4. Mix up a batch of flood icing. Divide it into two bowls. Add purple to one bowland blue to the other to match the edge icing colors.

5. Spoon the purple flood icing into the purple triangles and half circle. Spoonthe blue flood icing into the middle area. Spread the icings with toothpicks to fillin the areas completely.

6. Pipe horizontal lines with the white edge icing across the blue area. With a toothpick,drag lines through the blue icing from bottom to top, and then back down again. Thiswill make white feather shapes.

7. Place the wafer candies and orange jelly bean onto the cookie to make the owlsface. Color a bit of white edge icing brown. Pipe two brown icing dots for eyes.

8. Cut a small triangle from the fruit leather. Snip one edge to look like feathers.Round the corner opposite the feather snips, and carefully fit the leather betweenthe eyes.

9. Let the cookie sit for a few hours to completely harden.

Makes 1 owl

Tip:

Dragging a toothpick through lines of icing can create some cool effects, such asfeathers, tie-dye, or fireworks.

Ready to create a red carpet showstopper thats good enough to eat? Hats off to thisglamorous project.

INGREDIENTS

chocolate melting wafers

pink food coloring

edge icing

flood icing

1 large round sugar cookie

1 vanilla sandwich cookie

buttercream frosting

1. Place five melting wafers in a small zip-top bag. Leave the bag open and microwaveon the defrost setting for 30 seconds. Squeeze the melted candy to one corner. Ifthe wafers are not soft yet, microwave on defrost 30 seconds more. With a kitchenshears, snip off the corner of the bag.

2. On a piece of wax paper, pipe the melted chocolate into shapes that will decorateyour hat. Let them dry for at least one hour.