Gingerbread houses, anyone?

**Darlene** · 11-17-2006, 08:12 PM

I love your work! How long does it take you to decorate your usual cookie & how long do they have to sit to dry? This is probably a stupid question but can your decorated cookies go into a cookie jar or are they wrapped flat and stay that way?

**miss_thrifty** · 11-17-2006, 10:57 PM

great job yankee girl,
i usually make one every other year, this year is the yule log with ice cream in it.

**frugalfoster** · 11-18-2006, 12:32 AM

I love to see the cookies you have done. Oh I've tried to decorate cookies but NEVER NEVER have they looked like yours......To bad you didn't live in Washington State, I'd be over to take some lessons!!!!

**yankeegal** · 11-18-2006, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Darlene

I love your work! How long does it take you to decorate your usual cookie & how long do they have to sit to dry? This is probably a stupid question but can your decorated cookies go into a cookie jar or are they wrapped flat and stay that way?

Thanks so much. I never really "timed" a single cookie, but doing a bunch usually is a 3 day process. I bake the first day, decorate the second, and bag/package and deliver/or customer picks up the third.
The royal icing dries hard enough to stack and put into a cookie jar-I have given cookies in a jar as presents with no problem. The royal usually takes at least 12 hours to dry completely, depending on the humidity, temp. and such. I usually wait 12-18 hours before I package them to be on the safe side. They ship very well too.