Thomas The Train Cookies (Royal Icing)

Here is the 2nd part of the order for Train cookies for a special little boys birthday! I made these Thomas Face cookies, another simple cookie but super cute! Yesterday I shared the RailRoad Crossing Cookies.

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What you Need:
Round Cookie Cutter
Royal Icing - Grey and Blue (see recipe below) 
AmeriColor Blue Food Gel and Black Food Gel (added with white to get grey)
Edible Food Writer
Candy Eyeballs

I piped each cookie a blue ring around the outside of the cookie. I then took my light grey to fill the middle. BEFORE the cookies dry add the candy eyeballs, to make sure they stick. AFTER the cookies dry you add the details. I took a black edible food pen to make the eye brows above the candy eyeballs. I added cheeks and nose with the grey. I then took white to make a smile.

  
Here are all the cookies made for the party:

I individual wrapped each cookie:

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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.