Any Home Bakers Here?

[room onthebroom]

Thank you 3goodeggs! That's exactly what I was looking for. You are my Hero!!!

 

[3goodeggs]

 

[N F C]

As usual I've missed a lot... enchiladas, sourdough, gingerbread... I'm always starving when I read this thread!

I have a question about frosting;
My daughter is having an Alice in Wonderland birthday in a couple weeks & I wanted to make her frosted cookies with the writing on them like in the cartoon. Any ideas how to make a frosting that would be smooth & hard & not smear? Also, would I use the same kind of frosting to write on the top? I have zero experience with this, so any tips would be greatly appreciated!

There's also this simple cookie glaze:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/921333/any-home-bakers-here/1060#post_14967313

I used it last year to decorate gingerbread cookies. It goes on sort of wet and dries sort of solid. It's similar to the frosting you find on bakery cookies.

 

[room onthebroom]

That sounds great too! I scanned a few pages before & after your link & found the answer I was just about to ask on meringue powder. You guys are pretty good at answering questions before I even ask them. Hahaha! Thanks!

 

[N F C]

As usual I've missed a lot... enchiladas, sourdough, gingerbread... I'm always starving when I read this thread!

I have a question about frosting;
My daughter is having an Alice in Wonderland birthday in a couple weeks & I wanted to make her frosted cookies with the writing on them like in the cartoon. Any ideas how to make a frosting that would be smooth & hard & not smear? Also, would I use the same kind of frosting to write on the top? I have zero experience with this, so any tips would be greatly appreciated!

It would be fun to see pictures of the cookies you make for your daughter's birthday party. Hope you'll share with us!

(And in case you haven't seen it, there's a recipe index on page 1 with links that will take you right to a recipe within this thread.)

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

@room onthebroom cool username, making Alice in Wonderland cookies, your my kind of mom! What other things are you making for the party?

 

[room onthebroom]

I will definitely post pictures if they come out. I love the recipe index! It looks like its 3x bigger than the last time I looked.

 

[room onthebroom]

@room onthebroom cool username, making Alice in Wonderland cookies, your my kind of mom! What other things are you making for the party?

Thanks! I'm thinking of braking out the mismatched tea pots & tea cups & having a very Mad Tea Party. I have some of those baking tea cups that I bought on sale once, but never used. I'll try to make cupcakes in those, the frosted 'eat me', 'try one', 'take one' cookies & maybe some traditional crustless cucumber sandwiches to offset the sugar a little. What I'd really like to do is somehow make it look like we're tiny people in a giant garden. I'm experimenting with making huge paper flowers with colored sheets of paper & hot glue. I'm wondering if I can twist some green gossamer up & make it look like leaves & I'm toying with the idea of making a couple big paper mache mushrooms out of some old chicken wire. My mind is reeling with great ideas, but I have zero budget so I have to make stuff out of whats already in the house. Also, I can only work on it at night when they're sleeping, so I don't know how much of it will actually get done, but is sure is fun thinking about it! Did you guys know that flour, water & old stained tshirts work great for paper mache if you don't have glue, starch or newspapers -- It just takes a bit longer to dry.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Thanks! I'm thinking of braking out the mismatched tea pots & tea cups & having a very Mad Tea Party. I have some of those baking tea cups that I bought on sale once, but never used. I'll try to make cupcakes in those, the frosted 'eat me', 'try one', 'take one' cookies & maybe some traditional crustless cucumber sandwiches to offset the sugar a little. What I'd really like to do is somehow make it look like we're tiny people in a giant garden. I'm experimenting with making huge paper flowers with colored sheets of paper & hot glue. I'm wondering if I can twist some green gossamer up & make it look like leaves & I'm toying with the idea of making a couple big paper mache mushrooms out of some old chicken wire. My mind is reeling with great ideas, but I have zero budget so I have to make stuff out of whats already in the house. Also, I can only work on it at night when they're sleeping, so I don't know how much of it will actually get done, but is sure is fun thinking about it! Did you guys know that flour, water & old stained tshirts work great for paper mache if you don't have glue, starch or newspapers -- It just takes a bit longer to dry.

Huh I have never tried it with fabric, but yes we make paper machete everything with flour and water.
I bought an Alice in Wonderland book a couple of years ago at a craft store.

It has a idea to make giant rose lights.
it calls for: 1 string of 10 outdoor LED lights (it says it is important to use only outdoor LED lights due to fire risk)
5 Sheets of red card stock
5 sheets of white card stock
they cut a rough spiral in the cards stock then staple the cards rock into a cone around the lights.

 

[appps]

Thank you for the idea to cook my sour dough in the Dutch oven! I've always ended up with a pancake loaf because it spread sideways instead of up. So I put it in my casserole pot and finally got a loaf I can get a slice of bread out of . Just wish you could buy loaf tins bread loaf size.