I am making alien head cookies for my neice's 8th b-day.
I can't decide whether to stick the cookies or not.
I have only done sticks a few times - for stuff given away.
My kids have eaten a few leftovers and they have completely fallen
off the stick while they were eating them.

Any suggestions on this?

how do you "stick" yours?

bake stick in?
or
attach w/ royal icing?
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tho' mr. iconoclast here...

does it even matter?....I'm not going to eat the stick..and I'm going to rip that cookie off of it and get it into my mouth ASAP!

When ever I do cookies for a party I stick em. I think they look cooler that way. They almost always fall off the stick when you eat them, but no one ever seems to mind.

Hey Doug... true how true... kids don't care if it falls on the ground.
I do though - especially at a restaurant.

I usually bake mine in.
How do you do it with royal?

after cookie is cooked and cooled.

turn over and run a thick bead of royal (just as if it were elmers glue) up back of cookie and put stick into it. allow to harden before turning over. can even run a second layer of royal on top of stick to totally encase it -- but why bother.

here is my two cents:
are you using lollipop sticks? if so try baking with popsicle sticks: they cover a wider area but are thinner. If you are still afraid that that would fall off the stick, once they have cooled add a ring of royal icing around the base of the cookie where the cookie meets the stick; you can make it to match the cookie decorations.
My baking buddies and I always do this, & never have any problems with cookies falling off the stick.
Let me know how that works for you
ciao

I use skewers for my cookies sticks and never have had the problem of them falling off. I cut my cookies out with cutters, put them on a sheet in the freezer for about 10 minutes and then put the skewer in the cookie about half way before cooking, works great for me.

Kids love cookies on sticks even if they fall off before they're done eating them. I use candy melts or royal to atach the sticks because when I bake them on they fall apart on me.

Thanks for all the replies.

I did end up baking the sticks in the cookies..we'll see how it goes tomorrow if they all fall off when being eaten.

I like the idea of the popsicle stickes...I may do that next time.

I try to post a pictue sometime during the week.
A.J.