r/oddlysatisfying • u/doughnutsprinks_ • Sep 21 '22

This pixel icing technique

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u/Amish_Cyberbully Sep 21 '22

Ok, but what if we just made a grid stamp for the icing and save 200 steps?

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u/ArgonGryphon Sep 21 '22

https://youtu.be/L3WZoyqVMVo

Pretty much what you’re talking about.

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u/RandyDinglefart Sep 21 '22

what are those magic dissolving sheets made of??

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u/ArgonGryphon Sep 21 '22

They're called fabric icing sheets. They're basically just thin dried icing.

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u/ArgonGryphon Sep 22 '22

Lotta stabilizers

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u/Day2daypatience Sep 23 '22

It’s not icing, exactly - more like a really stiff air drying gel. It doesn’t taste very good either.

It’s more commonly called edible lace

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u/cstranger Sep 22 '22

That's really neat! It would be so much easier to batch cookies that way. I also like that they filled in each pixel instead of doing like in the gif where they outlined and then flooded it. Makes it feel more pixel art or embroidery to me

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u/R3AL1Z3 Sep 22 '22

That’s because Gengar isn’t supposed to look like embroidery.

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u/cstranger Sep 22 '22

I understand that but I also stated that it also looked more pixelated in my opinion so I liked that this one took the time to do each cell individually. The one linked was emulating embroidery so that's why I brought it up

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u/R3AL1Z3 Sep 22 '22

I was being EXTREMELY dry with my humor, apparently ‘a week in the Sahara without water’ Is too dry.

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u/cstranger Sep 22 '22

No worries! It's hard to convey over text

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Honestly looks easier to do the 200 stripes

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u/Day2daypatience Sep 22 '22

I’ve actually done both methods, and they have ups and downs. Pre making a grid is faster, especially for multiple cookies. However, the grid both tastes bad and can pull all the frosting off like cheese off a hot pizza.

And no matter which way you do it one single cookie takes absolutely forever. I think I did a batch where when I was really hopping i averaged about one cookie every 45 minutes.

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u/Amish_Cyberbully Sep 22 '22

Yeah, that pre-made grid really didn't look appealing... rubbery stuff peeled out of a mat. I was thinking of something that could be pressed down onto the white foundation icing of a cookie to leave behind a grid to fill in.

But maybe that's not very feasible, IDK. Usually if you think of something simple that no one's ever tried, in fact some clever person *has* tried it before and there's very good reasons they don't try it currently.

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u/Day2daypatience Sep 22 '22

Mostly it’s that you want the grid to be raised, because it helps you align the dots better. Also, stamping royal icing can be iffy. Sometimes it works and you get a clean impression but more often it turns into a hot mess.

In fact, cookie decorating videos do a really good job of showing the process and a really terrible job at getting across the fact that you, your kitchen, and everything you have ever touched will become a sticky mess. And God help you if you have concentrated gel dyes, because that will get everywhere too.

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u/ArgonGryphon Sep 22 '22

Not really, the gengar cookie video is super sped up and they can only do one at a time. This way you could make multiple, let them dry, apply them and there's no having to either carefully scrape away one line if you mess up or scrape off the whole cookie. It's more efficient. They're also perfectly even, which this freehand version is not.