Worm's World

Part 1 Is here What is it with Americans and Corn Syrup - they put it in everything! It took me ages to find a simple icing recipes I thought would work on my biscuits. I plumped for -  http://www.cleverlysimple.com/how-to-make-the-best-and-easiest-sugar-cookie-icing-glaze / in the end, because it only had 2 ingredients, both of which I had in and understood. It was also a recipe that was easy to adjust the quantities of. I did go and buy some proper metal piping nozzles (Wilkos - who have a fantastic baking range these days) and some disposable icing bags (Sainsburys). This also gave me a chance to work out what I actually had in the way of cake decorating / colours etc Blank Slates I now know half a cup of icing sugar & 2 tsp of milk ices 3 unicorns, 3 moomins, a ninja belt and a bunny rabbit (not shown) A useful guide I think. And here's the 2nd batch of icing, with some blue gel in it, although I'm slightly disappointed at how light the colour is - but I was too scared ...

I'm not great at making things pretty - but it's an Afternoon Play picnic Today so I though I'd give icing sugar biscuits a go - Since I have loads of cookie cutters I never use. I also don't have fool proof go to recipes for icing and biscuits - I've always used the Nigella rainy-day cut out biscuit recipe in the past, but I didn't have any ground almonds and I've found they don't keep thier shape all that well. Anyway - This is What Pinterest was made for. Much hunting and looking at pins later and I came across :  http://www.inkatrinaskitchen.com/2011/12/best-sugar-cookie-recipe-and-kitchenaid_28.html (which didn't take 24hrs of pre planning or use weird american ingredients. It worked ok, although some of the more delicate shapes didn't take to it, but I'll keep with it until I find something better. It did take the punch out Dr. Who impression cookies well, and the Moomins look like moomins which is nice.  The Ninjas however had a tende...

I'm trying to perfect sugar biscuits with pretty icing, I now can't decide what shaped biscuits to make...