ANGRY BIRDS vs PACMAN

It turned out to be a rather stressful Sunday. Jackie's friends liked her  Angry Bird cookies which she had made the weekend before and I wanted to try the meringue powder that I had just bought .It seemed like a good idea using egg white powder for the royal icing as  I always end up with loads of egg yolk after making a batch of decorated sugar cookies. Mixing it was a breeze. Nice stiff icing for piping outlines. But when I watered it slightly to color the rest of the cookie it refused to dry  and smudged everytime we accidentally touched it.
Jackie got fed up halfway and suddenly remembered "I have to do my homework". What it actually meant was " Mummy, finish it for me"...sigh.  So there I was, this very bad artist struggling with wet icing when a light bulb went off in my head. Why not dry it off in slow oven heat..afterall it is a meringue, somewhat. Whew! Saved. And what do you know, my 'drawing got  better with every beak I drew.LOL

Royal icing in various colours and consistency ready for decorating. They have to be kept from drying out or else crust will form .

                                                                                                              

Cookies ready for decorating:  Red Angry Bird, Yellow Angry Bird, PacMan  

                 Outline followed by colour, otherwise termed 'flooding' and this was when the trouble began. The white icing finally dried out after 20mins on low heat in the oven with the fan on.

  The eyes were drawn in first then flooded with yellow 

icing. It was rather tedious trying not to drown the eyes.

A working mess...hehe

Couldnt resist. I accidentally smudged the exclamation mark.

Finally after 5 hours this is the end result. Jackie made about RM100 selling them to friends. Not bad for a weekend's work. Pricing for the made-to-order decorated cookies depends on the size and difficulty of the design. These were sold at a discounted price of RM3/- because they were practice run.