Fun&Easy Cookie Decoration Ideas

You know, Christmas is coming and everybody (even those who normally don`t bake very often) makes cookies. Served plain or with a touch of icing, but what if your cookies had something special?

 

I must apologize for the "bleeding" of the icing, but, hey, it was my first attempt in decorating cookies and I did pretty well. For a beginner, of course.

I came up with this small ideas thanks to someone I know. She posted on Facebook a picture showing some festive decorated cookies and I asked if she made them. Her answer was that she didn`t do it, but she`d like to. 

So I figuired out that a tutorial on my blog might help some of you to impress guests with these. Aren`t they just cute?

 

Now, I used several methods of decorating the cookies, but first of all, I present to you my recipe for royal icing.

Ingredients 

1 egg white

150 grams powdered sugar

food coloring(mainly red, blue, green and yellor but I used only red and blue)

Directions 

Beat the egg white until frothy, or until you trace a small line with your fingertip and it holds. Like in the picture below:

With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the powdered sugar. The icing, when lifted, should fall in ribbons. Like this:

Now It`s time to dye your icing in the desired colors. Keep in mind that for each color you use, you will need and extra piping bag.

Time for decorating!
1.Method:(Snowflake)
Take some icing and put it on the cookie. Take a toothpick and even it out.

 See? You need a bit of patience.
Now that you have this done, take the piping bag which has the white icing and pipe strips on the blue icing. Gently tap the cookie to help the icing set. 
To give your  snowflake that magic cristal effect, dunk it in granulated white sugar.

Aaaand here you have it:

 

2.Method:(Hearts)

Put some icing on the cookie and spread it evenly with a toothpick. After that, take the piping bag (which has the white royal icing in it) and pipe small dots. Take the toothpick and place it just above the white dot, tracing a line trough it.

     Finished! Here you go:D

 

3.Method:(Marble)

This is the easiest methods of all. 

After you finished decorating and you still have some icing left but don`t want to waste anything, simply put a tablespoon of the other icings, swirling it aroung in the air. Just like in the picture below:

                                     

Take a cookie and dunk it in this mixture (without having stirred anything) and let the excess drip off. This is what you should have:

 

Note: Let the icing set for at lest 3 hours before handing your decorated cookie.

 

I`m sorry for the low quality of my photos but, again, the light wouldn`t cooperate! :D I hope this tutorial helped. I`d love to know how they turned out for you.

Lots of love and may you have the greatest holidays!