I love having Iced Cookies on the party menu. They always look colourful and fun, and they decorate the food table too. For my son’s recent Space Rocket party we absolutely had to have iced rocket shaped cookies and they most definitely had to match the rest of the party’s design. I really didn’t have the time or patience to make them myself, nor did I want to spend the money to have them professionally made (last time I got a quote for a detailed iced cookie it was around $12 each – I love cookies, but I don’t love them that much!). So when I came across this idea, I was pretty keen to give it a go. So armed with my computer, a few graphics skills and a recommendation from a couple of friends for a company called Photocake, I was off on a mission.

I started out by purchasing a rocket shaped cookie cutter from Kiwi Cakes and then created my rocket image to fit the cutter. This took a little bit of trial and error – having to print it out a few times to see if it would match, but I got there without too much fuss. Then I tiled multiple copies of my rocket onto a page that matched the measurements listed for the size project that I wanted to use on the Photocake website (this was an A3 Landscape Edible Image). I followed the remaining instructions to complete the order – pretty straight forward.  They then printed my images onto a thin layer of fondant like icing and couriered it to me.

A couple of things I need to mention here are that Photocake only prints what you upload and submit – so if you get your sizing or positioning wrong it’s not their fault. Also every printer and computer screen has some variances in colour so be prepared for the fact that the printed icing image may vary slightly from your screen. And lastly due to copyright laws you must own the rights or have permission to upload your chosen image.

 

The edible icing image arrived in good time and was very well packed. Overall I was super impressed with Photocake’s service.

Then it was baking time. Once the rocket shaped cookies were cooked and cooled I used the cookie cutter to cut out the rockets from the icing sheet.

I then brushed the cookie with a little water before placing the icing on top of it so that the icing would stick. And it was done!

All that was left to do was to serve and then eat them.

If you decide to have a go at making your own iced cookies the cheat’s way, we’d love to hear from you. Either send us an email or tell us about it on our Facebook page.

 

 

 

 

 

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