I found a recipe for Sugar Cookies by the one and only Martha Stewart.
Note: I love Martha Stewart.
So the first thing you need to do is make your cookies! After mixing up the dough, roll it out to the desired width and use your great artistry or the Hello Kitty Cookie Cutters that can be found at Hobby Lobby (and other places I'm sure). Once you have all your kitty's in a row, bake them!
After you let the cookies cool (be patient), spread the icing of your choice/color over them. I used Pillsbury. After choosing your icing, put some icing into a small bowl and add water (a little bit at a time) to thin out the icing. Once you are at your desired thickness, start spreadin'!
Step 2: You've spread icing all over your cookies now right? Well I hope so. You need to let the icing settle and harden before you decorate them with even more...wait for it...ICING! So, what I did was use my Pillsbury icing to make different colored icing to create Hello Kitty.
Tools:
Use little ramkins to mix up different colors of icing. I found this whole set of Wilton Icing Colors at Hobby Lobby. Mix a little dye in at a time, and stir using a toothpick. Once you get your desired color you can put it inot one of these bags:
Now, these bags were about to make me cry last night but I am just telling you how I created these. So, if you find a better way to decorate then do it.
These decorating bags do not come with any tips so youre gonna have to get those but they are only 99 cents. I got tip #2 and tip #4.
The picture below is what your decorating bag should look like right before you put the icing inside:
What I have found in life is that humans were born without enough hands. So putting icing in decorating bags was kind of hard for me so I did this...
Put it in a glass! Duh!
Okay, so now you are pretty much set up to decorate Hello Kitty. I made sure I had a picture for some refrencing but I sorta did it my own way. Hello Kitty has a lot of black outlining going on and for my sake and for my cookies sake, I left that out. So what I encourage you to do is make these cookies your. Own it, bye-golly!
This is the finished product:
I used tip #2 for the eyes and nose
Tip #4 for the bow
I dipped a toothpick into the black icing bowl so that it covered about 1/4th of the tooth pick and pressed it down on the cookie to create the "whiskers"
I am hoping I didnt leave anything out but if I did : "Sorry"
Some of this is common sense too...
Meow!
Note: For decorating the face, Royal icing wouldve been a better choice, but I didnt get any. So maybe you should.
