So here're the anime cookies I worked on to sell at Comic Fiesta. I had pretty ambitious plans at first, with great details, more characters! I was pretty much aiming to make a 1000 pieces and laugh my way to the bank. Then the cloud of excitement settled down onto the cold hard floor of reality. So I chopped my plans down to what was actually possible versus what my head likes to imagine. It's not like I'm in it for the money :( if I were, I'd be in a whole different line of work. What I love is doing stuff like these, and if my hobbies can help pay for themselves, that's awesome.
In a msn conversation with Joyce one day and I was wondering what I'd name the range of cookies for sale. "What about Cookie Gundam?" she suggested, "thats like cookie group in Japanese, right?" I fell off my chair laughing. Well, I was pretty sure gundam isnt the Japanese equivalent for 'group' but I googled just to be 100% certain! Trusty ol' google translator helped convert
cookie group to Cookie Gumi. Sounds cute enough for CF.
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| first colour goes on |
Making these were pretty fun. A little back breaking and eye straining, and sometimes I'll run late into the night just to get some layers of icing ready before the next day.
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| I hold the icing bag pretty weirdly. Looks like I should work on that. |
Of course I wouldn't have been able to do it without talented help! So much thanks go to my mum, my sister, Gianne, Shae Lyn, and Shereendar for coming over to lend a hand T-T (they were duly rewarded, although I still feel like I haven't paid them back enough!) you guys are awesome!
And for the photo roll :
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| Rin and Len cookies with a doily border thanks to Shae Lyn's insistence. |
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| cookies in the works. |
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| food colouring markers! |
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| most of the colours used. |
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| Strength looking cute |
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| I forgot her name. |
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| Elizabeth from Gintama |
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| Domokuns. I just adore how simple yet incredibly endearing they are. |
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| Miku being packaged. |
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| Companion cube <3 |
I really intended to make the companion cube 3D, like an actual cube, but I was running out of time so I scrapped that and did something easier :
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| Totoro cookie standing on grass cookie. |
So thats about it. It was a pretty steep learning curve for me, and there were a lot of "
so thats why we shouldn't....." moments. I'm not exactly impressed with myself just yet, I think I could use a lot more practice and experiments, especially when dealing with our hot humid weather which really affects the icing a lot! :(
More cookies to come!
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I know this is very long ago but may i ask, did you use royal icing?:3 do you think glaze icing would work just as well? I wanna try making cookies like this. I've made royal icing cookies before but the royal icing became hard and by hard i mean break-your-teeth-off hard. Seriously. So i would like to know from someone who has made such stuff before! ^o^
ReplyDeleteI'm really sorry to disturb >.< but what icing tip you used to outline Rin and Len's hair? Sorry to bother you...
ReplyDeletehi! anon 9:59, yes I did. I used an egg white and icing sugar recipe and then watered down with water for flooding consistency. I've never tried glaze before, so I can't say. I am curious now that you mentioned it, I'll try it out soon! I get what you mean by rock hard! It's happened a few times before, but rarely now. I'm afraid I'm not entirely sure why :/ might be the cookie's own recipe, lately the cookies I decorate on tend to be on the softer side, so it might have an effect on the icing's hardness.
ReplyDeleteanon 10:49, I'm having a tough time recalling, but I think I used a wilton tip 02. I'd always prefer a tip 01, but it gets clogged way too often.
Hi! Are you selling these cookies still, because I would love to buy a couple of dozens for my son's anime club meetings. Please let me know! Thanks!
DeleteHello :> I take orders for cookies, but I am based in Malaysia though.
DeleteYou should do Tokyo ghoul and fairy tail cookies!!!!
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