Make It Pink! Make It Blue!

Hello everyone, welcome back or welcome to another blog post in the series of my royal icing and sugar cookie collection! We are getting closer to our final week of our learning projects everyday, and I am beginning to think about what I want my final project to be! Of course I want it to be my biggest and best piece of work out of all nine weeks, but this weeks outcome I have become quite proud and fond of. I have also found that through my weeks of creating and decorating cookies that my favourite part is sharing them with the people around me, and seeing their reactions to my creations. Sometimes I find myself disappointed in the final product, however, when I take them to staff members at work they always see the best in the final product and seem grateful, which in my opinion makes it worth the trial and error!

If you know who I am, you will know that I am a huge Disney fanatic and try to bring the magic of Disneyland into my everyday life. Whether this is playing the Disneyland esplanade music all day everyday in my apartment, watching vlogs of others enjoying Disney World or Disneyland on YouTube, or creating copy cat recipes of my favourite dishes served on park property, I always strive to bring a touch of magic into my life especially since a trip to the parks is a no-go at this time. This weeks sugar cookie creation was inspired by Auroras crown from the classic Disney film Sleeping Beauty. You may realize that I did not make the crown in its classic golden colour palette, rather I did a play on the famous quote “Make it pink! Make it blue!” by indeed, making it pink!

This week I would like to focus on the decorating process by saying I went back to my original royal icing recipe that uses icing sugar, an egg white, cream of tartar, and food colouring. This was one of the best decisions I have made over the past couple of weeks since it stayed on the cookie right where I had originally placed it, making it a huge success as I was dealing with runny icing the last few weeks. I also took a quick trip on my lunch break from work to my local, small town Co-op grocery store and found some new sprinkles that got me so excited to use the crown cookie cutter I purchased at the beginning of this learning project. The entire time I was baking these cookies I watched Disney World vlogs on Youtube, which really set the tone for good vibes and pixie dust floating through the air.

Once the cookies had been baked and cooled, I made a pearlescent pink shade of royal icing, put it into my trusty ziplock bag, cut the corner off of the bag, and began the decorating process! I began with creating edges with the icing so that my icing would not flood off of the cookies, put royal icing into the centre, flooded out the middle with a tooth pick, and then added five large sprinkles in differing colours and sizes onto the top of the crown. The large pink sprinkles that I placed onto the middle portion of the crowns were my absolute favourite and I am so happy that they added a jewelled effect to the crown. Once the royal icing completely dried after about an hour, I moved them onto a travel tray and then took them to work to share with the staff. Not only were they excited to see yet another tray of cookies, but working on Wednesdays have become their new favourite shift!

Thank you guys for joining me again for another week of my learning project! A few more of my classmates are also working on cooking/baking-related projects that you should all take some time and check out as well! Branden Smith focuses on making a new meal from scratch every week for his family members, and then each member rates the meal on a scale from one to ten! Also, Shana Blenkin focuses her blog around baking beautiful confections from bagels, buns, and even sugar cookies! I highly recommend checking out both of their blogs as I have enjoyed them each and every week. A word of caution though, they will both make you hungry!

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