VIDEO: How do sprinkles stick to cookies?

Sprinkles don't last - but why?

Everyone who already knows the problem cake or wanted to decorate cookies with sprinkles: The sprinkles just don't stick to the underlying after baking dough and scroll or crumble off. In fact, this problem is preprogrammed: On the one hand, the more crumbly crumbles simply do not bond with the base, regardless of whether it is a cake or a cookie. And on the other hand, crumbles often have such a crumbly or crumbly texture that they simply disintegrate even with good adhesion, sometimes especially the upper part.

Streusel - this is how they stick to cookies and cakes

To say it in advance: none of these tricks and tips can ensure that some of the crumbles don't fall off after baking - but not all of them!

• Regardless of your recipe for cookies, cakes and streusel, a very small trick can sometimes help to make the streusel stick better: They have to be a bit doughier, i.e. not so crumbly. To do this, simply mix some egg yolk or egg white (not too much) into the crumble mixture.
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• However, you can also do something for the base, the cookies or the cake, so that the sprinkles hold better. The grandmothers' trick was and is to keep the cookies. brush the surface of the cake with a little beaten egg, egg white or egg yolk. Then spread the sprinkles on the cookies before the egg surface dries out. This "putty" ensures that the crumbles hold better.
• Another way to help the crumbles stick is to lightly coat the cookies or the surface of the dough with flour paste. To do this, mix one tablespoon of flour with two tablespoons water lump-free. The same applies here: Sprinkle sprinkles quickly over the paste. However, with dark cookies it can happen that you see the flour trick as a light background.


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• A sugar-based glue is better and, of course, tastier: stir some powdered sugar with a little (!) Water to form a stiff glue and coat the surface of the dough with it. Place the streusel on the sugar surface and then bake the cookies as usual. However: If the "sugar treatment" is a bit too thick, it can happen that the frosting runs off during baking. However, this method works well with cakes.
• By the way: A (soft) fruit pad, as one would find with many sheet cake thinks is also a good "streusel glue".