Beginners Guide to Cookie Decorating
Christmas is a time for family, friends and baking cookies for everyone you know. We all have our favorite cookie recipes that have been passed down by our families and friends. I know you have found amazing recipes on Pinterest. Decorating sugar cookies is a little more complicated than baking up a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Don’t get me wrong, chocolate chip cookies are delicious but, aren’t as pretty as decorated sugar cookies. When I began making cookies, I searched the web high and low looking for some kind of beginners guide to cookie decorating but I never found one.
I wanted to make a guide for those looking for tips and trick that will help take some of the mystery out of making cookies. I have gathered several posts that I’ve made over the last two years and put them all in one place for you. This list will show you everything from how to roll out sugar cookie dough to how to fix mistakes when decorating cookies. I hope you find something that will help answer your questions.
Beginners Guide to Cookie Decorating:
Basic Cookie Decorating Supplies-What You Need to Get Started
Add a Little Drama to Your Cookies
Basic Cookie Decorating Supplies
How to roll out sugar cookie dough.
How to cut out perfect cookies every time.
Flatten Cookies for an Even decorating Surface
Why do Sugar Cookies Spread when Baked?
How to make Royal Icing with a Hand Mixer
How to get the Pattern on a Cookie
How to outline and flood a cookie video
How to Outline and Flood a Cookie with Royal Icing:
What is “Outline,” “Flood,” and “15 Second” icing
Royal Icing Consistency – What You Need to Know
How to make an Outline, Flood and 15 Second Icing
How to get Icing into those Little Bottles
How to Fix a Mistake on A Cookie
How to Fix a Mistake on a Cookie
Royal Icing Transfers:
How to Make Royal Icing Eyes with Free Patterns
How to Remove Royal Icing Transfers
How to Tell if Baking Powder and Baking Soda are Fresh
Eggs-How to test for Freshness
I hope this beginner’s guide to cookie decorating helps you find the answers you are looking for. If there is something you have questions about please shoot me an email or leave a comment in this post and I will do my best to help you out.
Be sure to bookmark this page or pin it because I will continue to update as I make new posts and videos.
Bear hugs,
LOVED YOUR WEBSITE! Thanks for all the wonderful tips and videos! Just baked your sugar cookie recipe and used cookie cutters for the 1st time. My sis and I made some for Pharmacy Week for work!!!
Love the whole thing, Thanks for sharing your skills so freely! New to decorating and having a blast.
I was wondering which icing bottles you use? We have never decorated cookies like this and my daughters would like to try this year..Thanks!
Hi Laura,
Here is a link to the cute little bottles that got me into the wonderful world of cookie decorating!
http://amzn.to/28Py1eL
If you ever want to know what kind of tools I use you can click the ‘Shop’ link at the top of my page. I try to keep it up to date to make it easier for you all to find things.
Bear hugs,
Lisa
Hi There!
My royal icing always dries in a matte finish. Is there anyway to help it stay glossy?
Hi Lisa,
You can totally make your royal icing dry shiny! Once you decorate your cookies, place them in front of a fan. This is something Sweet Sugarbelle taught us years ago. The fan will dry the top layer quickly and make the icing nice and shiny!
Here’s Sugarbelle’s tutorial about it:
https://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/2011/04/my-1-fan-wfmw/
Have fun baking!