As a avid cookie hobbyist and design professional, I spend a lot of time thinking about cookie design, but I also like to get opinions and feedback about things like color before I start, or when I'm done with a cookie and wondering "Is this too plain? Should I add a little something or leave it?" It would be awesome to have a place to post a picture (Sneak Peak!) and get opinions. Who's with me?
And who wants to see the cookie conundrum I have right now?
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This is a great idea, I often feel a bit stuck and I think hearing about other people's design conundrums sounds like so much fun.
What are you working on right now?
This is definitely a great idea! I just posted a pic a couple days ago because I needed ideas/opinions and the replies were indeed helpful. 
Sweet Delights- Where did you post it?
HappyLoris- I'm working on Thank You cookies and the plaques are plaguing me! I'll post a pic when my employee comes back with the camera!
This is a great idea, I often feel a bit stuck and I think hearing about other people's design conundrums sounds like so much fun.
What are you working on right now?
So first let me say that I stuck my elbow in a finished cookie (the Thank you Maggie (or Aggie in this picture)), so please kill me now. But I am still here, so I used the opportunity to try out a technique that I had been thinking of using marker to kind of shadow outline the wet on wet names. Now I am wondering which is better. Marker like on Maggie, or no marker like on Lilith and Tim's cookies.
Opinions welcome! Please don't really kill me, though.
Ugh, I hate when that happens. I will go weeks or months without messing up a cookie and then do it multiple times in the same decorating session.
I really like the outline, it just looks more finished and intentional than the ones without it. It is cool to see the little bits of white and color around the black outline, it adds a lot of interest to the cookie. Another outline option you could do is to pipe an outline in the same color as the lettering. It will give it a little bit of dimension and clean up the lines.
I feel for you! One order I was working on recently, I picked up a cookie I had just flooded to shake it out a bit, ended up flinging it across my work table, where it hit the container holding other icings. Amazingly, it didn't look damaged until I picked it up over the other cookies I had just flooded, when it broke in two on top of the other cookies! Normally, you'd probably take that as a sign to back away ~ take a rest ~ discontinue working on the cookies until your hands and brain were in sync again ... but NO! Not me ... I picked up a tube of icing and dropped that on the other batch of cookies that had just formed a nice crystalized top of drying icing! So, one elbow in a cookie can't be too bad 
So, now that I've shared that with you ... I like the look of the outline in the picture ... the outline gives it that 'watercolor paint' look.
... but NO! Not me ... I picked up a tube of icing and dropped that on the other batch of cookies that had just formed a nice crystalized top of drying icing! So, one elbow in a cookie can't be too bad
Wow! I'd feel better but now I'm feeling bad for you! My whole day has been like that- I also stored some cookies before they were fully dry and squished them! Thanks for weighing in too!
I really like the outline, it just looks more finished and intentional than the ones without it. It is cool to see the little bits of white and color around the black outline, it adds a lot of interest to the cookie. Another outline option you could do is to pipe an outline in the same color as the lettering. It will give it a little bit of dimension and clean up the lines.
Thank you HappyLoris for the $.02 - Looks like we might have a consensus building!
Add me to the pro outline group. I think that I will have to try that it looks so nice! I have also flung a cookie and have dropped one on top of other cookies causing a mess. Oh the trials and tribulations of cookie decorating
... but NO! Not me ... I picked up a tube of icing and dropped that on the other batch of cookies that had just formed a nice crystalized top of drying icing! So, one elbow in a cookie can't be too bad
Wow! I'd feel better but now I'm feeling bad for you! My whole day has been like that- I also stored some cookies before they were fully dry and squished them! Thanks for weighing in too!
I never thought about using a marker for depth of lettering. Great idea. I also outline my cookies. it just gives a cleaner detail to the cookie. I did have to laugh at flinging of the cookie. Im so happy Im not the only one Last week I had flooded a cookie and was waving it back and forth a little to hard and I hit the window. I also didnt realize I had icing all over the cupboards. Love forums where we can all talk and laugh.
Love forums where we can all talk and laugh.
Love the outline
Guess I know what I'm doing tonight, gotta go get that marker! Thank you to everyone for helping a girl out and making her laugh. I've been know to give my cookies a good shake, and now I know to hold on tight! I definitely vote for a Design Peanut Gallery (Design Two Cents?) forum in the future!
Sweet Delights- Where did you post it?
HappyLoris- I'm working on Thank You cookies and the plaques are plaguing me! I'll post a pic when my employee comes back with the camera!
I posted it under: Forums / Technique Troubleshooting / Other Technique Help Needed - STAT! because I wasn't sure where else to put it.
Thanks, there's already a place on the site to post these sorts of questions. As Sweet Delights pointed out, it's under Other Technique Help Needed Stat: http://cookieconnection.juliau...e-help-needed---stat
I'll rename the title a bit so it's clearer that design questions go there as well.
Just updated the title and description of that forum, so hopefully it's clearer now. Please let me know.
Also going to re-title and relocate this post in the correct forum. Stay tuned.
OK, now successfully relocated! Thanks!
OK, now successfully relocated! Thanks!
Julia- Thank you for getting me squared away with the right forum, and for opening the door for more fun design discussions! But you forgot to tell me- marker or no marker?
I love the outline! It just looks more finished. There's nothing wrong with the cookies without the outlines, I just have a thing for outlines. I like that you used a marker. So much quicker than icing outlines, and a whole lot easier on the wrist!
I like the outline with the marker too - it adds interest and dimension.
