Android Gingerbread

Step 5 Decorate

Decorating cookies is hard!  This was one of those things I just thought I would naturally be good at, but that was not the case.  I made a mess!

Here's basically what I did:

• Using a piping bag, I piped an outline of icing around each cookie to define its features.
• Then I put the cookies in the fridge for the icing to firm up.
• Next, I dyed the icing in the colors I wanted and thinned them down a little with water.
• First I tried piping the color into the areas I wanted, and later I switched to using an offset spatula to apply the colored icings.
• Using the offset spatula or a toothpick, I pushed the icing up to the edges of the piped outlines.

It took a while, and robots are esp. hard I've decided.

Well, it was fun and delicious, so I hope you enjoy!