I made these cookies last night! I found the idea & instructions from the fabulous “Snack or Die” site.  This is a site that is dedicated to video game baked goods.  The crossover of two of my hobbies in this way, is something I thought would be very niche… but as it turns out there are a lot of other game nerds that love to bake & decorate as well.  This is awesome!

I used a vanilla sugar cookie & royal icing recipe from the book “confetti cakes“.  This book also outlines a technique called “flooding” – a way to acheive a smooth glossy finish of royal icing on cookies.  This was the first time I attempted that technique and I learned a lot of things.  Firstly, the royal icing I had made was a bit too stiff. That made squeezing it out of a #2 tip a bit difficult. It was hard to get the bunny head/ear/mouth outlines to be perfectly smooth and rounded.

As you can see, that left a some what ragged border around them. The key to flooding a cookie is to water down the royal icing until it reaches a smooth, water consistency, then after dabbing some onto the cookie, using a toothpick to guide the icing to the corners. I chose to do the full head white outline first, then the pink ears & mouth outlines. Then I flooded the ears and mouths, followed finally by the face flooding. It was a bit difficult to flood around the ears as there was only a small amount of space between the white outline and the pink inner ear part.  Getting the royal icing to the exact consistency was difficult. I was afraid to put too much water into it, but I was also finding I kept adding more as it was just a bit too thick to work with, as far as flooding went.  I also noticed that my hand was shaking so much when I was attemptint pipe the outline of the bunnies. I’ll definitely have to work on that. I was also amazed at how much work it was! It took me a few hours to create just 14 bunnies!

It was worth it! They were well received.  Next time, I’m going to make their eyes bigger and their expressions crazier.