The stamping was ridiculously complicated. If the icing on the cookie wasn't completely flat, the stamp wouldn't transfer properly. It took awhile to determine just how much "ink" (gel food coloring) to apply to the stamp and how much pressure to apply when stamping the cookie. Sometimes the icing would squish and sometimes the letters wouldn't transfer at all. The initial plan was to stamp a bunch of different messages, but it took so much trial and error for the original phrase that I decided just to stick with, "TE AMO." My mom asked me what "T F A M D" meant. Glad to see the stamp job is so readable. :P
I ate one cookie and it so sweet I almost died... but that's because I ate one with lots of icing on it. I put a lot of icing on it to try and ensure there was a flat canvas for stamping.
This whole process was complicated and obviously didn't come out as nicely as I had hoped, but I'm still pretty proud of myself :D I gained some icing piping skills and hopefully the stamping will look better each time.
Yes, those are butter spots on the paper. /;
