How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies

  • December 1, 2008
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You’ve got the basic recipe. Now learn all the different ways you can decorate those holiday sugar cookies like a pro.

You Will Need

  • Specialty decorating items
  • Sugar cookie dough
  • Cookie cutters
  • Cookie sheets
  • Currants, chopped nuts, or assorted candy
  • Eggs
  • Food-coloring liquid and food-coloring gel or paste
  • A pastry brush or small artist’s brush
  • Hard candies
  • A plastic bag
  • A rolling pin
  • Plastic squeeze bottles
  • Royal icing
  • A butter knife
  • Rolled fondant
  • Waxed paper
  • Cookie tins
  • A straw
  • A toothpick
How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies: Get supplies

Step 1: Get supplies

Go to a baking-supply or craft store, or shop online for specialty cookie-decorating items.

How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies: Jazz them up

Step 2: Jazz them up

There are tons of ways to decorate your cookies before baking. After you’ve rolled out the dough and cut the cookies into shapes, press currants, nuts, or candy into them. Or brush them lightly with egg white and dust with colored sanding sugar or sprinkles.

Dragees, those tiny gold and silver balls that adorn fancy cookies and cakes, are edible. But because they contain real metal, eating them is not advisable.

How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies: Glaze them

Step 3: Glaze them

To add colorful shine, glaze cookies before baking by whisking a few drops of liquid food coloring into an egg yolk and spreading it on with a pastry brush or small artist’s brush.

If you want to hang cookies on your Christmas tree, use a straw to make holes in the tops before baking.

How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies: Create stained glass

Step 4: Create stained glass

For a stained-glass effect, put hard candies into a plastic bag, crush them with a rolling pin, and then sprinkle them onto unbaked cookies. The candies will melt to look like beautiful stained-glass windows.

Do a test cookie to make sure the candy doesn’t start to burn before the cookie is fully baked. If that happens, add the candy after the cookies are half-baked.

How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies: Ice them

Step 5: Ice them

For already-baked cookies, try frosting them. Whip up some royal icing, divide it into separate batches, and tint with food-coloring gel or paste. Put the icing in plastic squeeze bottles, pipe it around the outline of each cookie, squeeze some in the center, and spread it evenly over the top with a butter knife or a brush.

For a marbled effect, spread a light coating of white icing on the cookies. Then pipe on stripes of colored icing and swirl them with a toothpick.

How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies: Make them glitter

Step 6: Make them glitter

Frosted cookies can be decorated even more by sprinkling them with edible glitter or luster dust.

How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies: Make rolled fondant

Step 7: Make rolled fondant

Make or buy rolled fondant. Add food-coloring gel or paste to different batches, roll them out, and use your cookie cutters to make pieces that are identical to your cookies. Brush the bottoms with a tiny bit of water and press them onto the cookies.

How To Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies: Store properly

Step 8: Store properly

Store your cookies in airtight containers, in single layers separated by waxed paper.

More than 55 million American households bake holiday cookies.

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Malorie_Lucich

so easy to understand, i think even i could do it!

over 3 years ago by Malorie_Lucich

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Jesse_Young

nice. gonna try this today.

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Great information. It will be fun to do these things during a holiday special with the kids.

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This is maybe the most visually gorgeous video on Howcast. Goluxx is a genius!

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