Baby Shower Cookies ... Unicorns

A teacher at Caden's school asked me to make Unicorn cookies for a baby shower. I haven't done unicorn's yet so I did some googling to get my creative juices going. Again I have become obsessed with my newest creation lol.

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What you Need:
Unicorn Cookie Cutter
Royal Icing - Purple and Teal  (see recipe below) 
Pipping Bag
Gold Food Color
Paint Brush
Black and Pink Edible Marker

Pipe each cookie first with an out line and then flood with the white. BEFORE the white dried I took a toothpick and made the lines on the horn. AFTER the cookies dry you add the details. I used a pipping bag of purple and teal to add the hair. I used Gold airbrush paint for the horn.  For the eye, nose and mouth I used an edible black pen. I thought it needed a little something extra so I took my pink  edible marker to make the rosy cheeks.

 Here are all the cookie shapes made:

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INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups butter, softened 2 cups white sugar 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

5 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS:

1.	In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
2.	Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
3.	Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

Julie Usher, she has a GREAT YouTube video on how to make, color and make consistency adjustments. 

Royal Icing what you need:

2 lbs Powdered Sugar

1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar

5 Large Egg Whites (or equivalent) 

Flavor to Taste

Gel Icing Color

Mix powder sugar and cream of tartar in your mixer, just to make sure it is incorporated in. Slowly add egg whites, then whip start of slow then go to very high speed. She says around 2 minutes, my friend had an older mixer so it took almost 10 minutes. You want stiff peaks that hold on and won't fall off the spoon. Add in your flavor, I would suggest you use a clear flavoring.  This would be the glue texture great for ginger bread houses etc.

Take 1 cup of royal icing in a smaller bowl then add your coloring, lightly mix so you don't get air into the the icing. I'm like her and like the gel coloring. 

For Top Coating - Add 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 tsp Water (This is if you don't want to outline and flood)

For Outlining - Add 1/2 to 3/4 tsp Water

For Flooding  - Add 2 to 3 tsp Water

WATCH her video on How to Top-Coat, Outline, and Flood Cookies. YES it is around 7 minutes BUT if you have never done this technique it's a MUST she explains it perfectly.