Each has its own childhood memories, its own bright flashes, which are no, no, and the helpful memory will offer. And now the pictures of those days when he was a happy child flickered, he was happy about a new toy or delicious pastries, with love prepared by his mother or grandmother. Her taste is impossible to forget after years. Do mothers of modern children really please the taste of soft, sweet, homemade cookies melting in their mouths? But it’s not so difficult, and if you even prepare a filling or icing for cookies, decorate it with candied fruits - there will be no limit to children's admiration, and a mother who knows how to cook such sweets will seem like a fairy fairy to a child.
Today we will not discuss baking recipes, but will learn how to make icing for cookies, because a good fondant can work wonders: it makes any pastry beautiful, gives it the missing sweetness, keeps it fresh for a long time and disguises all production flaws.
How to make icing for cookies ?
We immediately determine that there are a lot of types of glaze, we will consider the most common:
- The main sugar fudge is boiled from sugar and water, the ingredients are taken in a ratio of 1: 0.75. Sugar is dissolved in hot water, stirred, the walls of the saucepan are cleaned of adhering sugar with a wet cloth and put on high heat. After boiling the syrup, the foam is removed, the walls of the dishes are again wiped, covered with a lid and boiled until soft on a soft ball. At the end of cooking, add 5 drops of liquid citric acid for every 100 g of sugar. It is necessary to measure the acid accurately, with its excess, the fudge will not beat well, with a lack - it crystallizes.
- The main icing for baking easily turns into pink, for this at the end of cooking you need to add half a tablespoon of rum;
- To obtain protein fondant, powdered sugar is beaten with protein in a water bath for 5-7 minutes, then removed from heat and continued to beat for another 7 minutes, about 1 quarter of a glass of powdered sugar is taken per 1 protein. Cookies are coated with finished icing after it cools. This decor is also suitable for Easter cupcakes;
- Pour a glass of icing sugar into a bowl, pour 2 tsp. There. milk, grind to a mushy state. Pour 2 teaspoons of syrup into the mixture; corn or inert may be used. Beat until the mass acquires smoothness and luster. If the composition is very thick, a little more syrup is added during the whipping process. You can use a white shaving brush, or you can divide it into bowls and tint with different food colors. Baked items are dipped in icing for baking or applied with a brush;
- For the manufacture of vanilla glaze, it is necessary to mix a glass of powdered sugar with vanilla and 4 tbsp. boiling water. Grind the mixture with a wooden spatula until a homogeneous paste;
- Dark sugar icing for cookies (creamy) is made from sugar and 20% cream (you need to take them in a glass), 2 large tablespoons of cocoa powder and 20 g butter. Grind all the ingredients into one mass and cook in a small saucepan over very low heat until thickened.
Original baking decorations
Chocolate cookie glaze looks very elegant. To do this, grind a bar of ordinary dark chocolate, dissolve it with warm water and warm it in a water bath. Then take the leaves of fruit plants or berries, you can from a rose bush, wash, wipe with a napkin, cover with molten chocolate. After the chocolate has hardened, the leaves are removed. The resulting decorations can decorate cakes.
The strawberries in chocolate look exquisite , they are dipped in it only to half, allowed to drain excess and laid out for solidification on the foil. It turns out magnificent independent sweetness or an exquisite decoration for baking.