Introducing a festive assortment of Royal Icing Christmas Cookies! Each cookie is adorned with classic holiday motifs, including trees, Santas, candy canes, snowmen, gingerbread boys, and presents. Made from your favorite cut-out sugar cookie recipe, these treats are baked to perfection and ready to be decorated with flood consistency icing. With colors like light turquoise, dark turquoise, red, white, ivory, brown, and black, you can add fine details to bring these charming characters to life. Get ready to spread holiday cheer with every bite of these delightful and beautifully decorated cookies!
Instructions
Bake your favorite Sugar Cookies.
Prepare flood consistency icing in light turquoise, dark turquoise, red, white, Ivory, brown and black for fine details.
Here are some basic tips for working with royal icing, used to decorate these cookies. Use them as a guide to enhance your own creations.
Outlining Cookies:
Outlining cookies serves as a barrier to prevent flood icing from overflowing. This can be achieved using medium or flood consistency icing. When opting for flood icing for outlining, a very small tip is necessary to control the flow effectively.
To pipe, exert a small amount of pressure and pipe a line as close to the cookie edge as possible without exceeding it.
For cookies with multiple sections, outline each section in the desired color. If a section is small or narrow, pipe a line or zigzag down the center of the outline to prevent cratering later. Allow the icing to crust over for approximately 5 minutes before flooding.
Flooding Technique:
Begin on the outer edge of the cookie and pipe a line close to, but not directly on, the outline. Fill the cookie in a circular or zigzag motion, ensuring there are no gaps. Utilize a scribe tool to guide the icing towards the outline and smooth the surface. Gently tap the cookie to evenly settle the icing.
Dimensional Icing:
For dimensional icing, flood every other section, allowing it to crust over before flooding the remaining sections. This technique adds depth and dimension to the cookie's surface. Experiment with various techniques, like layering or marbling, to achieve unique effects and textures in your designs.
Wet-on-Wet Technique:
Start by applying a base layer of flood consistency icing to cover the entire surface smoothly. While this layer is still wet, add your desired design on top using a different color of icing. Use a scribe tool to delicately blend the design into the base layer, ensuring a seamless transition. Be sure to clean the scribe after each pass to maintain the clarity of the icing and design. Once satisfied with the design, allow the icing to dry completely. This technique enables colors to blend smoothly, resulting in perfect polka dots, beautiful gradients and marbled effects, ideal for various decorative effects on royal icing cookies.
By honing these details and techniques, you can elevate your royal icing decorations, creating visually stunning and professionally finished treats. Practice, patience, and experimentation will aid in refining your skills and developing your unique decorating style.
