Decorate Cookies Kids

Last week i visited my daughter s school and led a fun food class all veggies for this sweets free school.

Decorate cookies kids. Decorate these halloween cut out cookies with black gel icing royal icing candy eyes orangle and black sprinkles or whatever fun decorations you have on hand. First line the table with newspaper or parchment paper. Well i went back with some cookies and icing in hand for a cookie decorating session with her class twenty plus four and five year olds there was no avoiding the sweets part with this one no matter how healthy i tried to get with the recipes but we.

This easy and fun cookie decorating technique has become a family tradition that denise s mother started many years ago. Whether kids can handle a piping bag or a pinch of sprinkles they love the process. This tradition is truly simple and sweet.

Cookie decorating with kids. Set out your sugar cookies directly on the table. Pour the icing into a squeeze bottle and cover the cooled cookies.

Icing royal icing is perfect for decorating cookies but if you don t have meringue powder you can make a simple and easy icing this is very similar to the one on the kuhn rikon package by combining 1 pound of powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon of lime juice and about 1 3 cup water. You ll thin the royal icing with a bit of water stirring gently as you go until when you run a knife through the bowl of icing the line disappears in about 20 seconds. The key is making the cookies and royal icing at least a day before decorating.

Then separate it into bowls and tint the bowls different colors. Kids can get messy even turn their hands and hair. You ll need a basic sugar cookie dough we used the betty crocker sugar cookie mix and it worked just great just don t tell anyone and they ll never know egg yolks food coloring sugar sprinkles optional cookie cutters and small paint brushes.

Take this advice from my daughter. It doesn t matter what age your children are decorating is a sensory activity for small hands. These cookies make for a playful spooky food craft that grown ups and kids alike can enjoy.