If you are thinking about how you can lower the cost of your decorated cookies or an alternate way to decorate your cookies this post might help you. 

One of the more expensive ingredients in the decorated cookies is the meringue powder and if you like to have a very nice looking cookie you might need to invest in a good quality meringue powder, and this will increase the cost of your cookies. 

You can also make the royal icing using egg whites, but as you may know, we used raw egg whites and this can lead to some food contamination if not handle appropriately. 

This glaze recipe is very easy to do and the cookies look really nice, the flavor is similar to the royal icing, give it a try and see what you costumers think about this thin glazed cookies. 

For this glaze recipe you will need :

1. One cup + 6 tsp of powder sugar
2. One tbsp of light corn syrup
3. 3 tbsp + 1tsp milk
4. Few drops of clear vanilla extract or any citric juice

You can use regular royal icing if you want to add some decorations and also you can use edible markers once the icing is completely dry.

Few years ago I purchased a kit to make a mini piñata, and finally I had the time to make it, it was really nice that everything came already cut and it was very easy to assemble. 

I really like the idea of the piñata to put some of the candy cookies I made. 

Here is the video and you can see how I made it!

• Black card stock
• Black tissue paper
• String
• Any kind of crafts eyes
• Candies
• Scissors
• Ruller
• Puncher
• Glue or hot gun

Here are some pictures of how I did it.

I cut 1 in strips of tissue paper and cut 1/4 in fringes. 

Then I started glueing the paper to the cat starting from the bottom.

Then I made some holes in the top of the cat to pulled the string to hang the "Piñata".