How to Decorate Christmas Cookies Using Royal Icing and Edible Candy

Decorating Christmas cookies can be a lot of fun at Christmastime and there are so many ways you can decorate Christmas cookies using royal icing and edible candy. When you decorate Christmas cookies you want to make them look as fun and festive as possible. Sometimes Christmas cookies can look too good to eat.

How to Decorate Christmas Cookies using Edible Royal Icing and Edible Candy: Christmas Tree Cut Out Cookies

You can easily decorate Christmas cookies using edible royal icing and edible candy to make Christmas tree cookies. Purchase refrigerated Pillsbury sugar cookie dough and prepare them as directed on the package using a Christmas tree cookie cutter. You can find a Wilton comfort grip Christmas tree cookie cutter on amazon.com. Bake your cookies according to the package for rolled cut out cookies and let them cool. Next, you will prepare some royal icing, which is a great icing to use when decorating Christmas cookies. The Joy of Baking website has a royal icing recipe with egg whites and a royal icing recipe with meringue powder. Royal Icing is really easy to make to decorate Christmas cookies using confectioners' sugar. You can find the recipe here. You will want to add some green food coloring to your Royal Icing. Next, you will want to frost your cookies with the Royal Icing to make a green Christmas tree and then add some candy Christmas pearls to resemble Christmas ornaments or you can add confetti Christmas tree lights. Both of these can be found on the Country Kitchen Sweetart website. The Country Kitchen Sweetart also has some sugar layon Christmas ornaments that would look great after you decorate you Christmas cookies.

How to Decorate Christmas Cookies using Royal Icing and Edible Candy: Gingerbread Man Cut Out Cookie

During the holiday, you can find refrigerated gingerbread cookie dough at your local grocery store. You can easily cut out some gingerbread man cookies using refrigerated Pillsbury cookie dough and a gingerbread man cookie cutter. You can purchase a gingerbread man cookie cutter on amazon.com. Bake your gingerbread man cookies as directed on the package and let them cool. Make up some Royal Icing frosting from The Joy of Baking website. Using a pastry bag and a plain tip add your royal icing in the pastry bag. Next, outline your gingerbread man cookie with the white royal icing. Make some eyes, a mouth, and three buttons. Next, add some candy edible pearls for the eyes and buttons. You can find the candy edible pearls on the Country Sweetart website. The pearls come in many different colors. You can use some red and green for the buttons. Make one gingerbread man with green buttons and another with red buttons. You can use blue, ivory, black, oyster, or white color for the eyes.

How to Decorate Christmas Cookies using Royal Icing and Edible Candy: Round Cut Out Sugar Cookie with Poinsettia Sugar Layon

You can easily decorate Christmas cookies using royal icing, edible candy, and a round cookie cutter. You can purchase a round cookie cutter on amazon.com. Using the refrigerated Pillsbury cookie dough cut out round cookies and bake as directed. Make some royal icing from The Joy of Baking and add some green food coloring. Using the royal icing and a knife, ice your cookies and then decorate your Christmas cookies using poinsettia sugar layons from Country Sweetart.

How to Decorate Christmas Cookies using Royal Icing and Edible Candy: Round Cut Out Sugar Cookie with Edible Christmas Pictures

Another easy way you can decorate Christmas cookies using royal icing and edible candy are decorating sugar cookies with edible Christmas pictures. Using the refrigerated Pillsbury cookie dough, cut out round cookies and bake the cookies as directed. Make some royal icing using The Joy of Baking royal icing recipe. You can keep the icing white or tint it in any color you wish. Next, add some edible pictures that are decorated for Christmas. You can find some winter mini edible pictures for your cookies online at sugarcraft.com.

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