Decorate Sugar Cookies With Sprinkles

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Decorate sugar cookies with sprinkles. Since royal icing has a high water content it can cause sprinkles sparkling sugars and nonpareils to bleed. 4 1 2 teaspoons meringue powder. Bake your sugar cookies according to the directions on the package or use your favorite sugar cookie recipe.

When you use a pastry bag plus a tip with a thick frosting you have way more control and you don t need to be as precise. Sprinkles will not stick to dry stiff frosting drop on fancy sugar or colorful sprinkles before the frosting has set. This is the easiest way to decorate sugar cookies.

Immediately sprinkle the egg wash with fancy sugar and or sprinkles. Add sprinkles to the center or in another area of the cookie. Use only a pinch of sprinkles at a time and move your fingers together to slowly drop the sprinkles into place.

Spread it on the baking pan. Take a sheet of notebook paper and fold it in half. 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons water.

Flood the sugar cookie with royal icing. A variant of flocking is to sprinkle non pareils sprinkles or jimmies over the piped icing and then shake the sprinkles off. Or press in chocolate candies to create additional pops of color or add features.

Instead use sprinkles on the cookies you decorate with buttercream or bottled cookie icing. Bake the cookies and remove when done. But you can also use regular granulated sugar.