Birthday Bears!

Yesterday was the celebration of a special little boy's 1st birthday.  I decided to make some gluten free cookies to celebrate (and also get some sugar rush on).  

I wanted to make the icing a natural brown without using food colouring and also have a bit of cocoa flavor, so I used cocoa powder for that nice light teddy bear brown. It took quite some time to incorporate the powder into the icing and wasn't the right hue anway.  For ease's sake I would use food gel next time and forgo the powder.  I outlined with a number 2 tip, and when the outline was finished - watered down the icing to flood.  

I coloured the remaining icing blue, and decorated the bear's faces.  I used a number 2 tip again for the Bs and 1s, however it was difficult to get the intricate details I wanted.  Next time I would use a number 1 plain tip for the faces, and a number 2 tip for the bigger stuff.