Looking back at my learning project there are many things that to reflect on, some good, some bad and some that I did not think I would be reflecting on: My patience is very limited, I do not like to wait for things to dry and always tried to rush getting everything done. It is very hard to learn a new skill, it takes hours and hours of practice yet it still never seems perfect, and you never seem to be happy with the product you are producing! You are your own worst critic, I did not think that my cookie decorating skills were anything special but every time my…

This week I wanted to focus on putting all of my skills I have practices to the test! I wanted to stick to a theme within my final batch of decorating and the theme I choose is barn yard animals. Growing up on a farm I thought this would be the perfect thing to try and make. I found cookies that I wanted to re-create. The cookies that I found were on Pinterest. I was very skeptical when starting them, I did not think that I would be able to create something so cute. However, I am actually quite happy with the looks of the cookies. Overall, I believed I…

New Learning  This week I wanted to focus most of my time on learning about different techniques that can be used with icing. There are 2 techniques that I mainly wanted to focus on which are called, a wet on wet technique and a wet on try technique. Both of these were something that I have never tried and was very interested to learn more about. While looking at the wet on wet technique I read an article from Your Baking Bestie, I found this to be a very useful reading and gave me an understanding on what the technique is and how I to get best results. For the…

When learning a new skill everyone says practice makes perfect. This week I went into it saying “if I keep practicing I will become perfect.” However, this was not the case. After this week I still feel like I need a lot more practice This Weeks Accomplishments For my new online source that I learned from this week was YouTube. I watched many videos on tips and tricks that I helped me improve my techniques. I did not think that decorating sugar cookies was something that is as challenging as it was. It has posed me many challenges, especially because I have very shaky hands.   This week I continued to…

For this week I choose to do my learning off of TikTok. I spend so much time on TikTok I thought it would be a good idea to use it for something useful. Below are two of the videos that I used that helped me along in outlining my cookies. After scrolling through TikTok I found South Street Cookies, her videos seemed to be very education and I felt that they gave me an idea on how to approach the idea of flooding and outlining a cookie. When I started this I thought that this was not going to be as hard as it turned out to be. @southstreetcookies Have…

Before I started to decorate cookies I thought that hardest thing about this process was the going to be decorating the cookies and not making the icing, but, I was wrong. Making the icing posed many challenges, getting the royal icing to become the right consistency was very hard for me. The recipe that I used for the Royal Icing was Sally’s Favourite Royal Icing. I found that this recipe was very good at giving good instructions and step by step to follow. To make this icing I went to Micheals and picked up a few supplies that I needed. The first thing that I was required to pick up…

While choosing a learning project I had many ideas that I was interested in exploring. The one that I decided I wanted to take the time to learn was decorating sugar cookies. I enjoy baking but I have never been able to do more than spread icing onto cookies with a butter knife. I have created a list of things that I need to complete if I want to accomplish my overall goal of wanting to decorate a sugar cookie nicely; I need to begin by baking the sugar cookies, an easy-to-follow sugar cookie recipe is the way I will be doing that! I will need to cut the cookies…