Decorating sugar cookies for Easter is a great way to share some Easter joy with your friends and family. Making colorful Easter egg cookie decorations makes me really happy, and it helps prepare me for stress-free decorating. It’s not only fun, but it’s a great way to use your leftover royal icing from other projects. This project is easy, and you can invite your kids, friends, and family to help.

Guess what? You don’t have to wait until Easter to make them. You can use them now and store them in an airtight container. They’ll be ready when you start making those gorgeous Easter cookies. If you look in the supply list below, you will find the FREE Royal Icing Templates in different sizes that will help you create all the colorful Easter egg cookie decorations you want. Remember, you can make them now or wait until it’s a little closer to Easter. I love royal icing decorations! They make decorating fun and stress-free.

royal icing cookie decorations

I know you’ve heard me say it a million times, and you’ll probably hear me say it a million more, but royal icing candy decorations are a great way to use all of your royal icing. It’s already mixed, and it’s in piping bags or bottles, so why not use it to make pretty cookie decorations?

Supplies for Colorful Easter Egg Cookie Decorations:
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Recipes:

FREE Easter Egg Royal Icing Transfer Patterns:
(click each link below to download the free patterns)

Royal Icing Colors:
(Use any gel colors you like. I had these colors leftover from the Polar Bear Cookies and the Simple Jelly Bean Cookie Decorations, and I didn’t want to waste them. The consistency is 15-Second Royal Icing, which will make nice, smooth eggs, and it’ll help prevent the Easter egg cookie decorations from forming craters. You can learn more about it in the video below.)

The Cookie Countess Gel Colors:

AmeriColor Soft Gel Paste Food Colors:

Wilton:

Tools:

  • Turkey Lacer
  • Cello bag cut to cover your royal icing templates, or you can use wax paper. Both of these are flat and smooth, which will help the candy decorations to be removed in one piece.
  • Tape
  • Foam board or the back of a cookie sheet to tape your pattern down for piping Easter Eggs.
  • Brown food gel color
  • Water
  • Paintbrush
  • Paper towel

Optional:

Airbrush System and Airbrush Colors:
(Just in case you want to airbrush your cute little Easter Egg cookie decorations, I thought I’d share the colors I used. It really makes the Easter Eggs pop!)

The Cookie Countess Airbrush Colors: 

How to Make Colorful Easter Egg Cookie Decorations Video:

I really enjoyed splattering the cookies with the food gel color, but don’t do as I did. Be sure to wear gloves so you don’t have brown fingers for several days. Just saying, that part isn’t much fun. Keep reading to find out how I do it now. It’s one of those things where I wonder why I didn’t think of that before.

How to Make Colorful Easter Egg Cookie Decorations:

free royal icing transfer patterns

  • Begin by printing the Easter egg patterns and taping them to a piece of foam board that is cut a little larger than your paper pattern.
  • I encourage you to buy a couple of pieces of foam board because it’s inexpensive and fairly easy to use. I use mine over and over because it’s great to use for royal icing transfers.
  • Tape the patterns on the foam board and cover it with the cello bags or wax paper. Tape it into place so it won’t move when you’re piping the royal icing on your eggs.

make your own cookie decorations

  • Now you’re ready to decorate!

cute royal icing cookie decorations

  • Once you’ve piped the icing, use a turkey lacer to spread it into place. The thicker 15-Second icing is a good choice for these because the icing will stay in place better than thinner icing.
  • To make the eggs look nice and full, add a few dots of the royal icing in the center of each egg. Then, start filling them with the same icing. You don’t want the dots to dry for too long, you just want them to create a little bit of a foundation so it will add a little height to the flood layer.
  • Use the turkey lacer to push the icing to the edges of the eggs and to pop the air bubbles.

royal icing Easter Eggs

  • Can you see how these eggs have a nice, roundish shape? Look at the darker blue egg in the third row. It’s the fifth egg over. It looks like I didn’t use the dot of icing before I flooded it. That made the egg a little flat instead of having the rounded egg shape. If you’ve ever suffered from craters in your icing, and you want it to look fuller, you need to add dots or lines in the center and let it dry for a few minutes before you add your flood icing. It really gives your icing a nice full look. You’ll see how I do it in the video above.
  • Flood the eggs.
  • Let the royal icing dry completely.
If you chose to airbrush your colorful Easter egg candy decorations, here is how I did it.

airbrushed royal icing candy

  • Once your eggs are dry, you can airbrush them. It’ll give them a little color and add some dimension.
  • There is one more step before we’re done. Before you begin, let the airbrush color dry for about 20 minutes.

fun splattered Easter egg cookie decorations

Are you ready for the really fun part? I hope so because we’re about to add the splatter. Just do me a favor and wear some gloves, or you’ll have the same brown finger I had for a few days. Yes, I’m totally talking about the crazy things I’ve done and the colorful hands I have most days. When I see colorful hands, it tells me someone loves their job and has a lot of fun every day. 😉

If you don’t want food gel colored fingers and hands, keep reading and learn how I do it now. I wish I had thought of this sooner. On the other hand, colorful fingers can be a lot of fun.

splatter Easter Eggs

  • Normally, I use two separate containers or dishes for food gel colors and water, but hey, today I feel feisty.
  • All you need is brown food gel color, water, a paper towel, and a paintbrush. This technique is super simple, and it will add a lot to those cute little eggs you made. Oh yeah, you might want to cover your work surface so everything doesn’t get speckled.
  • Dip the paintbrush into the water and touch it to the paper towel. You want to remove some of it because this process doesn’t need a lot of water.
  • Next, dip the paintbrush into the brown food gel color and touch it to the side of the bowl. You want your dots to look like little speckles and not big blotches.
  • Hold the paintbrush above the eggs.
  • Place your finger at the bottom of the paintbrush and pull up on the bristles. This will cause the food gel and water mixture to splatter the paint on the eggs. Isn’t this fun?
  • Be patient and go slow so you don’t end up with huge splatters. Remember, we want smaller dots instead of giant splatters.
  • Speckle as much as you want and then let the candy decorations dry completely before you store them.

Now, for the tip I wish I’d thought of before I used my finger to spatter the food gel color. Do you see the turkey lacer in the picture below? Yep! You guessed it! All you have to do to splatter the food gel color and water is to hold the turkey lacer over the candy decorations, press the end of the paint bristles on the turkey lacer, and press the paintbrush down. It makes perfect splatters! You might want to test it over a paper towel just to see how it works. Once you get the hang of it, splatter those eggs!

edible cookie decorations

Basically, we’ve learned how to use our leftover royal icing to make candy decorations, how to splatter food gel color mixed with a little water without using our fingers, and how to make Easter Egg Candy Decorations for stress-free Easter cookies. What a great day!

Now it’s time to check out my royal icing transfer templates. After all, they’re free, so stock up now so you’ll be prepared to make cute, stress-free cookies whenever you’re ready.

Stay tuned because I have a lot of fun tutorials on the way.

Bear hugs,