So, it was a friend's birthday recently...and I had the clever idea of making him a batch of cookies that would hopefully be a big surprise. To give away the ending of this story...just give cash. Okay, well maybe not but the cookies never made it to him. The first batch when baked did not stay in the shape of the cookie cutter, needless to say large blobs of sugar cookie do not convey "lobster." And for the ones that did keep their shape most did not even get finished being decorated, since for the most part it was like an eruption of sugar goo that exploded across the kitchen. Basically if you make the mistake of making the icy "too" runny so that it flows too well, it will flow everywhere.
So perhaps there will be lobster cookies in the future, or perhaps crustaceans covered in sugar are beyond my means. But the intent was there, and the birthday wishes hopefully still will get conveyed.
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