Our icing of cookies is never very, well, controlled. I can manipulate a traditional cake icing bag, but the girls have a lot of trouble with it. I guess the management of squeezing and holding the nozzle at the same time can be a little like patting your head whilst rubbing your tum.
I know you can buy pre-prepared icing in squeezy tubes, but I don't like to partly because of the cost but mainly, icing is such a simple thing, you surely don't need to buy it and also have additional additives added to the mix? I recently saw something, I think in Martha Stewart or definitely something US based (of course I can't find it anywhere now), where you could buy soft plastic sauce type bottles that the icing nozzles fit onto. They then concertiner down (the profile was like a pleated skirt) so you could squeeze every last drop out of it. Those, I think, would be quite easy for a child to manage.
Has anyone seen/bought anything like this within Australia or know of someone who ships here without customs issues?
9 comments:
Is this time already? To bake biscuits? To get some presents? Cute gingerbread men, a pity that you are so far away!
I usually use a little plastic bag with a tiny, tiny hole on one of the corners for the icing.
I love your gingers. Try putting the icing in a snack sized snaplock bag and then snip the corner off
those cookies look delicious. me - i leave the cookie decorating up to my mother-in-law. she came over last week and decorated turkey cookies with the kids. bless her heart (and decorating skills).
Yum, these are fabulous...
They look perfect to me! Kid decorated, the best kind of cookies :).
I've only seen that sort of bottle for craft glue. And I have no idea whether the piping bag nozzles would fit into them...
Ummm I NOW feel like ginger bread men! Not sure if I am patient enough to wait till icing LOL
Great photos!! And also being able to remember to take them step by step :) is wonderful
i too think the plastic bag with a tiny tiny hole in the corner is very effective for not only kids but adults as well when fancy icing tips are not required.
i haven't made gingerbread men in a few years and you've got me thinking we'd better give it a go this year. they are just so tasty!
we made blueberry coffee cake tonight. my son was working the dry ingredients like a mad scientist!
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