Decorate Cookies

Patti paige is the cookie whisperer.

Decorate cookies. Once your cookies are cooled and your piping bags are loaded it s time to decorate. Decorate with royal icing. Here s how our talented home cooks have used pretzels sprinkles sugar pearls and frosting to churn out these 13 creative confections.

The easiest way to decorate cookies with royal icing is to dip them. Edible color markers are available at craft shops and are an easy way to decorate cookies. Add your choice of sprinkles and call it a day.

Prep a thin royal icing place it in a shallow bowl then dip the top of your cutout cookies into the icing done. Use candy melts for icing. Don t get me wrong chocolate chip cookies are delicious but aren t as pretty as decorated sugar cookies.

And dipping cookies is just as easy as it sounds. For the most basic cookie decorating. Try any of these other techniques.

Wilton christmas candy melts. With the right tools you can bake and decorate christmas cookies that would stop santa in his tracks. This method serves as a great base for all kinds of embellishments.

Just pipe and flood a large area with white or light pastel colored icing let dry completely then go crazy with the color markers. Decorating sugar cookies is a little more complicated than baking up a batch of chocolate chip cookies. How to decorate cookies.