Do you have a cookie kryptonite?! A design or technique that no matter how hard you try it just won't happen!?
I have one.
It is so incredibly embarrassingly simple!
Share yours and I'll tell mine! ;D
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Your not going to believe this but its the Wilton rose. I can do gum paste.
fondant. candy clay but the Wilton rose YUCK. totally embarrassing.
Your turn.
I am horrible at outlining! I love how a nice sharp outline looks on a cookie design but I am so awful at it. I have near panic attacks when a design demands it 
Stenciling will forever be mine, I think. That even goes for stenciling with paint as well as icing! It's my favorite look, and I always think "oh I can just stencil that, easy!" And it NEVER is!
Mine is coloring. I am not a patient person so have a really hard time waiting for icing colors to "develop". Then when I decorate, the colors wind up not being what I pictured in my head.
Yeah outlining is definitely something that I have a difficult time with. I see all these beautiful crisp lines and mine always have bumps and knobs at each intersection. I just don't get it! I can do it on a scottowel but when I go to a cookie, I fail!
Large circles. Smaller ones I can get down pretty well, but large ones, no matter how slowly I work, seem to try to develop a life of their own. I can do them, but circles are my nemesis. I try to avoid them. I am getting ready to do life preservers today. I will have a few backups. lol
Alright, here's mine:
Soccer Balls.
FOR THE LIFE OF ME
I cannot recreate a soccer ball. ever. LOL!
I love, love, love dots! Too bad mine always form craters! And like Tracy, circles drive me batty.
I love the term kookie kryptonite! My absolute nemesis is the great big and evil (yet potentially beautiful) SCROLL WORK. Mine look like crap and no matter how I draw it in practice or pipe it or whatever...it looks like a kindergarten student grabbed my piping bag and made awkward swirls on my cookies. It is so depressing. 
In my mind, I can see it, I can think it, I just CAN'T DO IT! Arrrggghhhh!!!!
Originally Posted by Debbi Hook - The SPI Flip Flop Foodie:
In my mind, I can see it, I can think it, I just CAN'T DO IT! Arrrggghhhh!!!!
next time, don't think!!! I taught myself this when I started cake decorating. Whenever I was looking at something to guide me, or I was REALLY concentrating.. that was when I turned out some of the worst designs I had ever seen. But now I know better... just grab the bag and go! Do it fast, do it without thought. I promise you it will help!
EYES! I cannot get 'em right! I try whites first, pupils first, wet on wet, letting them dry ... you name I've tried it.
The quest continues!
I'm with Tracy - large circles are not my friend. They always end up looking lop-sided. Also, stencils. I've only attempted them a couple of times, but the result was not good. I definitely need to practice with stencils.
Stencils stencils stencils. I am getting better at it, i just need to stop
pressing too much. I get excited when one works out nicely, hubby just smiles as I dance
away.....
Originally Posted by Debbi Hook - The SPI Flip Flop Foodie:
I love the term kookie kryptonite! My absolute nemesis is the great big and evil (yet potentially beautiful) SCROLL WORK. Mine look like crap and no matter how I draw it in practice or pipe it or whatever...it looks like a kindergarten student grabbed my piping bag and made awkward swirls on my cookies. It is so depressing. In my mind, I can see it, I can think it, I just CAN'T DO IT! Arrrggghhhh!!!!
Debbi- Can you do it drawing? You could scroll with marker and then just trace over it with icing. That's how I do my lettering- My cookie kryptonite is totally freehand icing. I don't have a KopyKake, but I am not a natural with the icing bag the way, say, Butterwinks, is!
Icing consistency. Piping or flooding, ARGH! It's never right. If I can name two, the second is keeping the cookie on the stick. It doesn't help business when the cookies on a beautiful cookie bouquet fall off the sticks.
Originally Posted by Mallory of ButterWinks!:
Alright, here's mine:
Soccer Balls.
FOR THE LIFE OF ME
I cannot recreate a soccer ball. ever. LOL!
Marlyn of Montreal Confections just posted this video on her YouTube channel. Maybe it will help!
Cookier Block!!! Lettering/Fonts! Maybe we all need to recite positive affirmations, practice mental imagery, spend a few hours on a therapist's couch, have a lucky troll on the decorating table, do it 100 times without stopping, practice with paper & pencil, go through the motions with nothing in our hands. Decorating is a mental, emotional & physical skill, not just talent. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can......