"Spider Web Cookies"

Next, are the artistic Spider Web cookies. Starting off with a simple chocolate shortbread cookie, these desserts have a very strong cocoa flavour, and have somewhat of a bitter aftertaste. However, once the icing is added, the cookies become much sweeter and more desireable. To ice these cookies, we used white and black royal icing. We started by creating a border around the edge of the cookies in white, and then flooded the cookies with more white icing. Then, we took our black icing and drew circles (starting smaller on the inside and getting bigger as you go towards the edge.) To create the look of a spider web, we used a toothpick to draw the icing out to the edges of the cookie and it was as simple as that.

Tip: Make sure your cookie has cooled completely before icing or else the warmth from the cookie will cause the icing to melt and you will be left with a mess