Holiday Cookie Decorating Techniques
Ingredients
- food coloring
- colored sparkling sugar
- paint brush
- disposable pastry bags and tips
- modeling tweezers
- toothpicks
- seedless raspberry jam
How-to
Ice cookies with simple cookie glaze.
Decorate cookies with Royal Icing.
Christmas Light technique
- Spoon icing onto cookie making sure the sides are iced and let the excess drip off
- Spoon on sparkling sugar over glaze while still wet
- Place on drying rack
Christmas Tree Technique
- Take previously glazed Christmas tree cookie and outline tree with white royal icing using a pastry bag and tip
- Add white sparkling sugar to royal icing
- Make garland on tree using royal icing in the pastry bag
- Add candy holly and berries with tweezers
Ornament Technique
- Completely glaze ornament cookie
- With a different color glaze in a pasty bag, draw stripes across the cookie
- Drag a toothpick across opposite direction of stripes to make interesting design on cookie
- Let dry on drying rack
Linzer Technique
- Take a cookie with a hole cut in the middle and decorate the top
- Spread thin layer of jam on a bottom cookie with no hole in it and place other cookie on top
Tip: repair a break in the icing with a wet paint brush