Ice Cream Sugar Cookies

Hello! I've been so crazy busy. Between work, baking, hobbies and catching up on my favourite TV shows (yes, watching TV is high on my list of priorities), I can hardly breathe sometimes. Which explains why I made these cookies weeks ago but only got to posting them now. Sometimes the words just don't flow.

Sugar cookie recipes are easy. You bake the cookies, make the royal icing, and decorate them. The only limit is your creativity. My problem with sugar cookies has always been the sweetness. There's no way to reduce royal icing's sweetness so I tried reducing the sugar in the cookies but they still turn out so teeth-achingly sweet I end up not eating them at all.

I used the same sugar cookie and royal icing recipe as my duckling cookies but reduced the sugar to 350g. For the mint chocolate chip ice cream, I used cocoa nibs as chips, love how they turned out looking just like the real thing!

Bird, Chick or Duckling? (Sugar Cookies and Royal Icing Recipe)

It seems like I've been away from my blog for a long time. I made these last week and had intended to blog about them but time kept getting away from me. It was also raining at weird hours so I couldn't take pictures of them, excuses excuses. Anyway, I bought this cute little cookie cutter some time ago and I thought it would be great for making chicks, but there weren't any space for legs. Then, it occurred to me that they could actually be ducklings or birds. Well, no matter what they are, they still look cute, so I made them in 3 different colours, completed with crazy eyes.