I made these "Julius inspired" cookies for one of our family members for his birthday favors. He loves Julius and I love a challenge, so we had a perfect combination!
I was really nervous about getting the shape of the face right, so I didn't want to ice the face directly onto the cookie. I decided to print out the image and trace it directly onto parchment paper. That worked great, UNTIL...
I realized that I couldn't see the lovely details of the face because I iced over them! Crap. Well, at least I got the outer shape iced out. I let it dry and then started the tedious process of peeling them from the parchment paper (I made 6 extra, just in case). There's an awesome video I came across from One Tough Cookie on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8cwHFXWRvY
This helped me immensely...only one face broke!
The other issue I had was that the underside of the faces didn't dry flat. I guess the parchment paper rippled slightly while drying, so when I added the faces to the cookies, they didn't lay completely flat on the cookie. And now insert me freaking out. What if I add the face details and the whole thing cracks? I can't possibly put this fragile cookie into a cellophane baggie...it will immediately break! So I
After settling the cookies in their boxes, I just used some scrapbooking paper I had in stock and dressed up the box a bit. They're off to be delivered tomorrow to our cousin.
Happy Birthday Robert!!
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