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How to make Orc Cookies?
Hello guys,
I'm in the habit of baking sugar cookies for most major holidays, and this Yuletide, I was given the suggestion that, for the benefit of all my geeky gamer friends, I make D&D shaped cookies. This instantly sparked my interest. I'm already thinking about elfcookies with sparkly tunics, unicorn cookies with white frosting, pretzel sticks with a doubleheaded axe... but my friend wants Orc cookies. Typical. How am i supposed to make an Orc with a gingerbread man shaped cutter? I can figure out how to make an orc shape and trace around each one, but here are my problems:
1.How can I make brown or dark frosting that isn't molasses (too sticky) and will stay put, or dry hard so I can stack the cookies without mooshing them? I usually use a milk and powdered sugar mix that dries hard, but how to dye it brown or black?
2. What sort of edible decorations can I use for armor? Chex? m&m's? I can't think of anything good!
Anyone have any good ideas?
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My mother is a professional cake decorator and she manages to find all the food colours she needs at a decorating shop. You should be able to get some basic colours at the grocery store to make brown or black frosting, though black tastes icky and you're better off going for a light blue (silverish) colour. For the armour, you can use laffy taffy! Roll it out flat and then cut the armor shapes from it, lol. Just an idea! Or, you can be REALLY daring and make a little cardboard cutout of the armor shape. Then buy some chocolate chips or meltable dipping chocolate, melt it, and pour it into the armour moulds to make it shape and cool into armor pieces. Have fun, from one D&D nerd to another!
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Choclate frosting! Dark choclate. You can use different kinds of choc, for different shades. On gingerbread, I have always been a fan of just using colored icing to decorate and skipping candy and stuff, but that's just me.
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sry i'm not good in that department but try surfing the net for answers mabye you will come up with some thing!
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2. Sprinkles maybe if you break the m&m's in to many peices and then sprinkle it on. NO chex. Go to the grocery store and look in that kind of isle for all that stuff and you'll get an idea.
-shay :-)
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1) Regular frosting + cocoa or instant coffee will give you some brownness... you can do the World's Simplest Glaze with 1/2 c. icing sugar + a slow drizzle of boiling water... stir, adding water until putty-like and then add seasoning. You kind of spread it on to _hot_ baked goods and let it sit there and smooth as everything cools. (do _not_ let the cookies cool too much... make the icing before or while they bake!)
Most boxes of food colour (with 3 or 4 little bottles) have a colour mixing guide on them that'll get you started on any given colour. Remember, a little goes a long way with that stuff.
2) There are little silver-coloured edible sphere things that might make passable chain mail or scale mail... they look like BBs... you could use them for trim and make a tabard + shield with food-colouring + icing above, or go the whole hog (although that many might be a tad crunchy)... a cluster of them probably make a good head for a mace or flail too. Shreddies are a bit flatter and browner than chex for wood/woven parts of the decorations.
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