LCBO Food & Drink Holiday 2024

SMART COOKIES

Flood Plain Flooding a cookie with thinned icing before decorating has become all the rage among high end pastry shops. It’s not as complicated as it looks. With a little practice and a lot of patience, you can create cookies that are almost too pretty to eat. It’s a time-consuming process, so make an event of it and try to have fun. Since you need to use both stiff and thinned icing to flood cookies, work with just a small portion of icing at a time so you can adjust colour and consistency on an as-needed basis (see “Dye Job” on page 52 for more tips).

TIMING

Flooded cookies need at least 1 hour, prefera bly longer, to dry before you pipe additional details overtop. When finished, let them dry overnight before storing in an airtight container.

BORDER LINE Use a fine, round piping tip or parchment paper cone to detail an outline on your cookie. It creates a map to work with and builds a barrier to hold the runnier flooded icing. ICE-ICE, BABY Thinned icing can either be roughly piped shape allows. Next use a toothpick to drag the icing gently to fill in the outlined area. See Royal Icing recipe (step 3) on p. 206 for instructions to make a thinned icing for flooding. IN THE DETAILS For smoother, more uniform details on a flooded cookie, make sure there is a small gap between the tip and surface to let the lines fall into place. onto each cookie or spooned over, if the

ALL THAT GLITTERS From the festive hues of seasonal candies to the glitter of snow flake quins, here are a few ways to give your holiday cookies a final flourish.

SNOWFLAKE QUINS

METALLIC DRAGÉES

SLICED FUNSORTS

SPARKLING SUGAR

SEASONAL CANDIES

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