Icing for Cookies

Directions

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   Add sugar to the egg white and stir with a spoon.
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   Mix for 5 minutes until the mixture becomes thick and glossy.
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   If it's too soft, adjust by adding sugar gradually until it reaches a firmness, which is easy to use.
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   For the cookies, it's best to use soft icing (the kind that drizzles slowly if you scoop it up).
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   For drawing borders or letters, harder icing is best.
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   For fine details, I make a cone-shaped piping bag.
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   Take an A4 sized sheet of plastic, cut it into a square, and then into a triangle.
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   The yellow arrow indicates the middle.
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   Roll up the sheet from the corner.
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    Take care that there are no gaps in the yellow arrow.
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    Once you're finished rolling, check the pointed tip one more time, then secure the cone with tape.
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    Using lots of tape is best.
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    For the cone piping bag, a plastic sheet is easier to use than parchment paper.
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    It's also useful when you're using chocolate to write messages.
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    This is a tiara decoration that I found in a design book.
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    I drew it using a cup.
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    I used a plastic cup with an upper diameter of 7 cm and a base diameter of 5 cm.
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    Wrap parchment paper around the cup and draw the icing design.
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    This is what it looks like laid out.
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    Wrap the parchment paper around a cup you have on hand, cut it to the appropriate size, and try designing your own pattern.
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    The best thing to use for icing flat objects is a plastic ice cream spoon Haagen-Dazs spoons are particularly easy to use.
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    I iced these cookies.
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    Try making your preferred colour of icing by dissolving a small amount of food colouring in water and mixing it into the icing little by little.
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    I made these as a gift for a ballet recital.
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    I iced them with the design of the ballet outfits worn on that day.
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    These are NYC cookies made sparkly with edible silver dust.
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    This was a present for a piano recital.
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    I made treble clefs with keyboards and music notes.
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    You can put them in a cup.
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    I made cookies and drew uniforms for a matriculation party.
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    I gave them as a present along with cherry blossom shaped cookies.
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    I made the color for a violin with black cocoa powder.
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    Drawing the strings perfectly straight was nerve-wracking.
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    This is a wedding design.
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    Even if the icing doesn't totally harden, just adding dragees or lines makes it cute.
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    These are light coloured heart cookies with a lace design.
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    I added a bit of icing to store-bought macarons to make them my own.