Christmas 2010 cookies

Okay, so this was my "aha" moment with decorating cookies.  I had read a lot of blogs about cookie decorating and watched some how-to videos on the web and finally figured out that I was using royal icing that was WAY too thin.  These cookies were some of the first that I was really proud of...

Here are some chocolate mini cupcakes I made with royal icing snowflake toppers.  They weren't quite as cute as I wanted, but considering how busy I am at Christmas time, they came out pretty good.  These snowflakes were super delicate, though - I think I ended up making twice as many as I used b/c half of them broke as I picked them up.  Next time, I would spend a little more time on them and make the fosting a little more pale blue.