Field Trip #7

Successful yet again! This week I was somewhat hesitant to go to visit my sponsor. I felt this way because the past two weeks I did the same thing each time and it was not teaching me anything nor was I learning new stuff, I was more or less observing. Butttttt, this week I finally started something new and more difficult called flooding cookies. Shortbread dough cookies are hard cookies in the shape of different things that are decorated with colored icing and such. I had to decorate Easter egg cookies, cupcake cookies, and plain square cookies. It is rather hard, specially for the first time and working with a pastry bag full of icing and trying to stay on the cookie and make straight, crisp lines. After I outline the cookies, I have to go back and fill in the cookie with the same icing to cover the top of the cookie. It is fun to do but takes a lot of patients, a steady hand, and of course a lot of time! Overall, I am very happy that I am moving on to bigger and better and more challenging things.