Homemade Sugar Pearls

I made embroidery-like sea creature cookies.

 

 

You might've seen these dark peacock colored round cookies. They were leftover cookies from the private lesson in May. They were sitting in a plastic container for a month but I hate to throw away food. I added two bird cookies to make a set.

 

 

  

I used homemade sugar pearls. Of course you can pipe dots straight onto the flooded cookies, but there are some advantages for making half sphere sugar pearls instead of piping them straight on cookies, or using store bought sugar pearls.

 

1)  You can make sugar pearls of ANY COLOUR without preparing different coloured icing. You cold use coloured icing, but you can use just uncoloured icing and paint the white pearls in ANY COLOUR.

2) You can avoid making your cookies too busy. It's handy for people like me, who don't know when to stop.

3)  Homemade sugar pearls are half spheres, so they are easy to stick and never come off.

It's too easy but here's how to make half sphere sugar pearls just in case.

<How to make half sphere sugar pearls> 
 

1) Prepare a piece of baking paper or OPP sheet fixed to something flat, such as a board or tray.

 

2) Onto the paper or OPP sheet, pipe dots of several different sizes with icing slightly softer than outlining.

 

3) Before peeling them off from paper or sheet, apply luster dust dissolved in vodka to make them pearly. You can add some colour too.