Happy 2012! I apologize for my sporadic posting during the past month or so. We were gone for most of December, but I do have some things I am going to post from our trips.
In the meantime, this is a really big day. Not only are the Bengals are in the playoffs, they actually have a chance to win. That’s huge. Toby is wearing his Bengals jersey on top of another Bengals shirt, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he put on a Bengals hat later to drink beer out of his new Bengals beer stein.
We’re trying Bon Appetit’s food lover’s cleanse again, so there is no cookie baking going on around here right now, but I did make some Bengals cookies when they were playing the Ravens the first time.
Obviously you can use this method with any shape you want to tiger-stripe. Just outline in black royal icing, then draw random stripes with points at the end. You can do up and down or side to side — whichever you like better.
Then thin some orange royal icing out a little and fill in the parts outside of the stripe with that. Next, add water to the black royal icing a drop or two at a time until it is spreadable but not watery (this is called flood icing — you want it about the consistency of maple syrup) and fill in the stripes.
For the Ravens helmets, I outlined in black, drew a Raven-esque shape in the middle with white royal icing, filled in the head with purple flood icing and added some more white for the beak and eye. Sorry I don’t have a tutorial for that one. I do have a close-up of the raven though:
Let’s hope the Bengals play better today than they did against the Ravens, though.
Sugar cookie recipe here, recipe for royal icing and how to make flood icing here.