So, I thought I had this brilliant idea to bake my holiday cards this year. Well, I gave it a try and it wasn't such a great idea after all. First off, paying for the edible images seemed to be a bit pricy. I was thinking about buying my own printer and edible ink, but I wanted to test out my cookie before purchasing everything.
I went to Gloria's Cake Supply and had them print out one sheet of icing paper for me. It was $10 for one sheet. I called a million other places, but most bakeries wouldn't print the sheet for me. They only wanted me to order a cake. Once I got the sheet printed the pictures didn't look quite as high quality as I was expecting, but I knew I could fix that in my design later. It was just a matter of adjusting my font and making it bigger.
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| Edible Icing Sheet |
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| Close shot of the 4x6 picture. |
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| Close shot of the 3x5 picture. |
I also didn't have a cookie cutter I wanted to use yet, so I had to cut the shapes by hand. Here are the cookies I cut out and iced with plain white icing.
After these dried over night, I cut out the pictures and applied them to the cookie using a brush and water. They actually stuck to the cookies pretty easily.
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| 4x6 cookie |
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| Mini Square Cookie |
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| 3x5 Cookie |
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| Small Rectangle Cookie |
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Now it was time to add a border. Red seemed like the perfect color to me. I had trouble getting the icing just the right thickness. I tried and tried and ended up making it waaaaay too thick, but I did manage to get the border out.
I added various borders to the other cookies and a couple of hearts.
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| 4x6 Cookie |
Once they were finished I wanted to send at least 2 through the mail to test my packing techniques. I sent the large 4x6 cookie to my friend Erin and the small 3x5 cookies to my mom. Both of them ended up cracking.
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| 4x6 Cookie sent to Erin |
On top of the cookies cracking it cost $3 a cookie to send it standard mail. I think I might be able to figure out a way to send them without breakage, but the cost of shipping is a little steep to send out so many holiday cookies. I have decided to stick with real holiday cards this year! I will definitely bake some more cookies for this wonderful season, but they won't be my holiday cards.
