Maple Leaf Cookie

Only two colors of royal icing are needed to make these maple leaf cookies - an orange/yellow for the base and a red/brown for the details and the stem.

To make them, flood the cookie with the yellow color and then immediately add the brown lines using a #1 pastry tip.  Use a skewer to pull branches from lines.

Finally add your stem.

It's definitely starting to feel like Fall.

Fall Cookies

It's hard to believe it's already October. Where did September go?

Anyhow, it's time I start thinking about baking some Fall themed sugar cookies. I don't want October to slip by before I get a chance to use these new cutters.

Today I'll start planning my designs and hopefully by tomorrow I'll be ready to decorate.