Glazed guitar cookies or how I learnt to stop worrying and love glazing

I'm not including any recipe in this post, in fact I just wanted to share the cookies' photos. I had been wanting to try my hand at glazing cookies already for a long time, but I chickened out every time the thought crossed my mind. But finally a few days ago I found the strength to tackle this challenge. I decided to make glazed guitar cookies for my eldest's birthday. He's learning to play electric guitar and loves Heavy Metal (nobody's perfect), therefore what could be better that some lovely little orange guitars, orange being his favourite color...



There are plenty of cookie making and glazing tutorials in the net, like the ones at this site (by the way, very kind and helpful people down there). You can choose your favourite tutorial, also on YouTube. As you can see, I have a somewhat unsteady hand, but I can tell you that it took only 15 seconds for the 18 guests at the birthday party to eat 60 cookies. And I got raving reviews...

For those of you who have never glazed cookies before, I must warn you that it's a time consuming task, even if you use the most suitable equipment (which I had, because I had furnished myself with all the necessary gadgets). I believe I spent one evening from 6 to 10 for the glazing alone. I guess practice will make perfect... I hope, and shorter too. But on the other hand, I had a grand time. I really felt like a child playing with PlayDoh, a real regression to childhood. And besides... to get to amaze all family, friends and relatives... that's priceless.



I'm sending these cookies to the Virtual Holiday Cookie Crawl hosted by the Gourmet Girl Magazine, be sure to check it out!