Royal Icing Decorated Christmas Tree Cookies

Brown flood consistency royal icing make sure it s a little on the thicker side so it doesn t run.

Royal icing decorated christmas tree cookies. Prep a thin royal icing place it in a shallow bowl then dip the top of your cutout cookies into the icing done. We know not everyone is a professional christmas cookie maker so we br. Dark green royal icing in piping and flood consistencies.

If you ve never worked with royal icing before check out our recipe for step by step instructions on how to make it as well as basic piping and flooding techniques. Christmas tree cut out sugar cookies. It s designed to harden so you can decorate on top of it with piped royal icing or even paint it.

Royal icing is a decorative hard white icing made with egg whites powdered sugar and some flavoring and coloring used to decorate cookies. How to make your holidays happy with decorated christmas cookies. Royal icing dries into a hard candy like coating that crunches when you bite into it.

Pipe a line around the border of the christmas trees with the green royal icing on each of the cookies. How to make royal icing for decorated christmas tree cookies. Tips and tricks for cookie decorating.

And dipping cookies is just as easy as it sounds. Once it touches the cookie maintain a gentle pressure on the pastry bag and slowly lift up until you re an inch above the cookie tethered by a strand of royal icing. This method serves as a great base for all kinds of embellishments.

Before decorating with royal icing or buttercream make sure your cookies are at room temperature. Now fill in each of the tree if there are tiny holes you can use a toothpick to smooth it out you must do it quickly otherwise the frosting may have already hardened and you can t really fix it without it being noticeable. If you want your cookies to dry hard for easy gifting or packaging use royal icing.