Icing for Cookies

Steps

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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). For drawing borders or letters, harder icing is best.
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For fine details, I make a cone-shaped piping bag. Take an A4 sized sheet of plastic, cut it into a square, and then into a triangle. The yellow arrow indicates the middle.
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Roll up the sheet from the corner. 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. 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. 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. 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. Wrap parchment paper around the cup and draw the icing design.
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This is what it looks like laid out. 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. 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. 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. I made treble clefs with keyboards and music notes. You can put them in a cup.
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I made cookies and drew uniforms for a matriculation party. 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. 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.