Week 12 :: Alpha Options Cookies

Hello readers!  No new recipes this week, I had a specific project in mind.  My Dad has spent the last year or so on a project for NASDAQ--Alpha Options.  Next month he's been invited to ring the NASDAQ opening bell and he's taking my Mom and me!  I am so excited and I wanted to do something to celebrate, so I tested out some Alpha Options cookies using the Sugar Cookie and Royal Icing recipes.  After a few attempts, this is what I got:

That's the alpha logo from the index!  I certainly went through plenty of uglies to get these...here's the trick to make any pattern you want on iced sugar cookies.....
1.  Print out your image the size you want it.
2.  Trace it on a disposable plastic lid.
3.  Cut out with x-acto knife or scissors, so you end up with a stencil.
4.  Lay the stencil on top of DRIED, iced cookie.
5.  Using piping consistency royal icing, pipe in the stencil.
6.  Level icing with a toothpick.
7.  Remove stencil. Rinse excess icing off before the next cookie!

VOILA!