Decorated Gingerbread Cookies With Royal Icing

Combine meringue powder and powdered sugar in the bowl of a mixer.

Decorated gingerbread cookies with royal icing. Tips and tricks for cookie decorating. Gingerbread cookies just aren t complete until you ve covered them with icing scattered sprinkles over them or stuck bright candies on top. Since you can customize every step of cookie decorating choose an icing dye it if you d like colorful cookies and set out a decoration station enlist help so everyone can decorate fun gingerbread cookies that are just as fun to eat.

So i made these adorable couple christmas gingerbread cookies with fondant hearties on the girls and a love letter for the boys. The fondant were made out of homemade marshamallow. This technique is known as a dam next fill in the border a method known as flooding and use a toothpick to blend in any spaces and smooth out the icing.

Let the icing set for about a minute or two before picking up the cookie and shaking any loose sugar back into the pan or plate. Keep your gingerbread cookies cozy by adding cute pj decorations. Before decorating with royal icing or buttercream make sure your cookies are at room temperature.

Step 2 preheat oven to 350 degrees f. I m in love with christmas cookies decorated using fondant or royal icing. Pipe a border around your cookie shape with the icing.

Once the house is put together you can then use royal icing to secure any candy decorations pipe pretty designs or add borders to your house. If you want your cookies to dry hard for easy gifting or packaging use royal icing. I know that list doesn t look like much but that s the fun of it.

Whipping too much air into the icing will cause it to get crunchy instead of silky smooth. Here are my favorite ways to easily decorate gingerbread cookies. Pipe the pattern that you want on the cookie then immediately sprinkle the cookie all over with the sugar.