pretend there's more babble than there actually is

[tsuki_no_bara]

question for the cookie-making folks on the flist: if i were to make sugar cookies with sprinkles (specifically blue and white star-of-david-shaped sprinkles), do i need to frost the cookies with something for the sprinkles to stick to, or can i just put them on the cookies before baking

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[murielle]

Your babble is interesting babble which makes all the difference.

If I was an icing making kind of woman I'd flood with white icing then sprinkle the pretty blue Star of David's. But I am not an icing making woman, so it's moot. Just reread your post. You didn't say what colour your sprinkles are! I think I am half asleep. Time to say goodnight. 😊

Wait! Read farther back. Sprinkles are blue and white...too complicated. Need sleep. ;-)

[tsuki_no_bara]

i made cookies frosted with royal icing for thanksgiving a couple years ago - i wanted sugar cookies with the kind of hard shiny glaze you get on decorated bakery cookies, so i bought a pumpkin cookie cutter and frosted them orange - so at least i'm vaguely familiar with it. since the cookies are white i might tint the frosting a really light blue.

and hey, sometimes cookies are complicated! :D

[murielle]

Oh, that will be so pretty!

[dear_tiger]

Sprinkle after, onto glaze. Pretty sure the sprinkles would melt/burn in the oven.

That does bring up an interesting question of what else was going on in the country in the 30s besides gangsters and the Depression. Hehe :D You should babble more about the 30s. And that's a great reason to be interested in a historical period. ( Speaking of 30s... *pokes your BB*)

[tsuki_no_bara]

i found some recipes that call for sprinkles before baking, but they also call for rolling the cookies in the sprinkles, and i'm not sure the ones i bought would roll all that well. you can bake sprinkles, tho, which is why i asked.

i'm pretty sure that by the late 30s jews with family/friends in europe were starting to worry, but i don't know how widespread that was, and it probably counts as, like, niche history anyway.

(i know! i'm pretty sure i even had something to report but now i don't remember what it was. >.< )

[bleodswean]

Sprinkles after after baking. And Happy Hanukkah!

I think I missed the babble post! Must scroll back and rectify!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm sensing a trend. :D i think i might have to bake first, sprinkle later. i have an icing recipe already, at least.

[donutsweeper]

Sprinkles can melt in the oven, but most don't. You could test a few to see if it works? Otherwise, an icing or glaze is needed to get them to stick (which you put on after the cookies have cooled)

[tsuki_no_bara]

there seems to be a groundswell for icing. i was sure these particular sprinkles can be baked, but i found wildly differing suggestions online, so i figured i'd ask.

[mdlaw]

Buttercream icing is goooood...hhmmmm

Uh sorry not what you asked, but sometimes sprinkles "bleed" when you bake them.        m         :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

omgbuttercream. i love me some buttercream. and i did ask about frosting.... the consensus seems to be that the best idea would be to ice the cookies after baking and then put the sprinkles on, so that's what i'm going to do.