How to Decorate Cookies
How To: Decorate Cookies With Royal Icing
Make professional-looking decorated cookies at home with just a few tools and a little imagination
Tools to Use
These tools make decorating easier: candy sprinkles, mini offset spatula, squirt bottle, piping bag and food coloring.
Royal Icing
First, let cookies cool completely. Then make royal icing, a mixture of egg whites and confectioners' sugar.Get The Recipe:
Royal Icing
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons meringue powder (egg white powder)
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 pounds confectioners' sugar (about 7 1/2 to 8 cups or 2 boxes)
- Food coloring, as desired
Directions
Combine all the
ingredients, except the food coloring, in the bowl of a standing mixer
fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix slowly until stiff enough to
form peaks. The icing should be pure white and thick, but not fluffy
and bubbly. If the frosting is overbeaten, it will get aerated which
makes it harder to work with. If this happens, let the icing sit to
settle, then use a rubber spatula to vigorously beat and smooth it out.
Alternatively, combine ingredients in a large bowl, and beat with hand beaters on low speed until the frosting thickens to stiff peaks.
Add up to 1 tablespoon food coloring and mix with a rubber spatula until the color is uniform. (Adding too much color reduces the sheen of the frosting and can break down the consistency of the frosting over a couple of days.) Store icing, covered, with plastic film on the surface of the icing.
Start With Outlining Icing
For outlining icing add a little extra confectioners' sugar — you want the consistency to be thick like paste.
Add Food Coloring
Remember, a drop of food coloring goes a long way
Outlining
Use a piping bag with a small tip to outline the shape of the cookie. If the icing is too loose, add some more confectioners' sugar.
Steady Hand Tip
Hold the bag in the hand you write with and the tip in the other hand as a guide. Gently squeeze the top of the bag. When you're done, set the cookie aside to dry.
Filling in Cookies
For a solid color, use the squeeze bottle or a spoon to fill in the outlines. This is called "flooding the cookie."
Adding Solid Colors
Use a thinner icing for this step, with a soft pudding or gravy consistency. If your icing is too thick, simply add water.
Cookies With a Solid Color
Let the base color dry a little before decorating.
Decorate
Use a piping bag to decorate the cookies.
Toppings
This is the time to add cute candies or sprinkles for decoration.
And You're Set
Have fun and use your imagination when decorating.
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