Any Home Bakers Here?

[tjo804]

Dear Santa
I would really like one of those cast iron GB house molds. Please I will be good NEXT year.

 

[tjo804]

Ok another question.

When making Royal Iceing should the eggs be room temp? or does it not matter either way?

This is actually more fun than I thought it would be.

And I haven't even started decorating yet.

 

[tjo804]

Random picture to get blushie girl off the side

 

[Alice28]

I'm so excited to see your house! I'm with you on needing a mold next year, I said the same thing last year too, but of course forgot after the holidays

. I would do the eggs room temperature. Let us know your icing recipe!

 

[tjo804]

I am just going to follow the recipe at the end of the gingerbread post. #407 pg 41

The cookies are great baked as well.
Clean up was much faster than the rest of the ordeal, But I had done that once or twice before

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The first ones I rolled too thin so they are kind of like eating really tasty drywall.
Going a little thicker gave it a more bread like texture.

See and I thought I would only ever use molasses for the FF or energy for the chickens

 

[Alice28]

I am just going to follow the recipe at the end of the gingerbread post. #407 pg 41

The cookies are great baked as well.
Clean up was much faster than the rest of the ordeal, But I had done that once or twice before .

The first ones I rolled too thin so they are kind of like eating really tasty drywall.
Going a little thicker gave it a more bread like texture.

See and I thought I would only ever use molasses for the FF or energy for the chickens

Nice! I've made that gingerbread cookie recipe twice (didn't have the crumbling problem you had, but looks like it turned out fine), they are super yummy! I didn't make the frosting though. Let me know how you like it! I think with the daycare I'm going to do a New Year's Eve cookie decorating party, so need to figure out frosting for that. The raw egg part kind of freaks me out, so might need to do a non egg frosting.

 

[N F C]

Nice! I've made that gingerbread cookie recipe twice (didn't have the crumbling problem you had, but looks like it turned out fine), they are super yummy! I didn't make the frosting though. Let me know how you like it! I think with the daycare I'm going to do a New Year's Eve cookie decorating party, so need to figure out frosting for that. The raw egg part kind of freaks me out, so might need to do a non egg frosting.

Alice, you might want to try this recipe for the cookie decorating. It doesn't have any raw egg in it and gives such a pretty, sort of glossy look to the cookies. It dries well too so cookies don't stick together when they are stacked on a plate.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/921333/any-home-bakers-here/1060#post_14967313

 

[sunflour]

I think it worked.

Now I just need to let it cool and see if I rolled it to thin to stand up.

The dough is fantastic to taste I hope the baked version is as good

I probably could have rolled out the whole house with half the recipe

, but I ate to much of the dough

Nice job. IMO much more difficult to roll and cut than to use a mold.

 

[DigMyChicks]

Nice! I've made that gingerbread cookie recipe twice (didn't have the crumbling problem you had, but looks like it turned out fine), they are super yummy! I didn't make the frosting though. Let me know how you like it! I think with the daycare I'm going to do a New Year's Eve cookie decorating party, so need to figure out frosting for that. The raw egg part kind of freaks me out, so might need to do a non egg frosting.

Hi Alice 28, I do a lot of cutout sugar cookies and this is the icing I use...you can make it as thick or thin as you wish
ICING
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
1-1/2 Tablespoon cream, half and half or milk
I usually color my icing so that can affect the thickness of your frosting if you're using the liquid food color verses the gel. Mix so it's well blended.

 

[tjo804]

I just clicked on the home page and the first thread I saw was "over due"

How are you feeling today Jesusfreak101?
and Lucy is she still being patient?