I want to make some cookies for a friend of mine, she loves elephants and I would love decorate like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosey_sugar_palace/3759747701/

I love the way she made this lace pattern! Would somebody, explain me how to make this details?

Thanks

You just pipe the details onto the white or dark icing that has already kinda set up.

But what I wanted to say is raise the trunk up for good luck.

Stiff icing and a tip 1, just my guess.

Let the first coat of royal icing dry completely and then use a semi-stiff royal icing for the string work.

and just to add to your confusion. I would wait for the base layer of RI to dry completely and then use thinned out RI I've found that if the RI is too stiff it doesn't like to stay on the cookie but hangs on to the decorating tip for dear life!

I use thickened glace. I like it a lot better than RI and I think that it tastes better and doesn't get quite so rock hard.

Here's another idea for an uniced cookie.

Thin some cookie dough down with water or milk to piping consistency.

Thinly thinly pipe on the detail and bake. Viola.

It spreads a touch but it also works great if you want it to.

You'd wanna use a cookie that has a nice flavor already if you do this.

edited to say--don't forget the food color (duh, Kate!)

Katy1111, some tutorials here:

http://sweetopia.net/category/decorated-cookies/

Learnt it in a bakery.

But all bad grammar aside--it's so easy to just dot on an eye. Perfect for simple designs. So easy to stack 'em up right after they cool. Makes life much simpler with gingerbread cookies & stuff.

Thanks everybody for your answer! I try all your advice and I'll let you know how my cookies turn out! thanks!

There's a book out of this, Also on how to pipe the cookie dough itself. A really old book.

You can go to www.bakedecoratecelebrate.com for some great information on this

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Hmmmmm, I think it is a self published book by Billie Fredricks, called 'Figure Piped Cookies' or something like that. I'll have to look it up. It's really cool, and a great alternative to icing and decorating cookies.

I took a class at Cake Camp years ago where she did this and then I taught how to do it in Omaha (with her permission). We colored the dough and piped it like we could do figure piping and baked. I'll have to look up the exact title.

If one becomes available, please PM me with the info -- I would LOVE to have a copy of it!!

I found it at home, 'Figure Piped Holiday Cookies" by Billie Fredrick, 1978, just a paper bound 'book' definitely looks self published. I saw Billie at ICES this year, not sure if she still have copies of this, but now you know what to look for.