Drizzle
a Little Chocolate
It's
really easy to drizzle a little chocolate (or frosting) on your cookies,
cakes, or pastries.
The classic way
to drizzle chocolate or frosting is with a pastry bag. But you don’t
have to have pastry bag. Here's how:
1. Place 1/2 cup
chocolate chips in a small heavy-duty plastic bag. Microwave the bag
and chips for 40 seconds on high heat. Knead the chips to mix the melted
chips through those that are not melted. Microwave again for 10 to 15
seconds or until the chips are completely melted.
2. Cut a tiny corner from the plastic bag and squeeze a narrow stream
of chocolate through the cut corner. You'll quickly get the knack and
be able to create decorative patterns of your choice. You can use the
same technique with frosting.
The cookies shown
are Buttery Shortbread Cookies drizzled with chocolate.
When choosing frosting
for drizzling on cookies you need a frosting that dries with a hard
shell so that it is less likely to smear with handling or stacking.
Choose a royal icing. A royal icing is made with egg whites which dries
with a hard shell. The more egg whites, the harder the shell will be.
Because of food
safety concerns, many use meringue powder instead of egg whites. The
primary component of meringue is powder is dried egg whites and so meringue
powder will create the same hard shell that egg whites do.
You can buy an inexpensive
package of meringue powder on our site.
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