Tips on how to decorate ugly sweater holiday cookies
Sharing tips on how to use a commercial cookie kit successfully for decorating ugly sweater holiday cookies.
Servings: 16 pieces
Calories:
Equipment
- Sugar Stir Needle or Cookie Scriber
- Piping bags
- Round piping tip for making dots
- Cookie icing bottles
- Cooling rack for baking
- Mixing bowl
- A whisk
Ingredients
- 1 kit ugly sweater cookies including colored royal icing and the baked cookies
- 2 cups white royal icing homemade or premade mix
- 1 cup sprinkles holiday-themed motifs
Instructions
- Take the cookies out of the box and place them in a rack or a plate.
- Using a cookie icing bottle or a piping bag with a round tip, outline the cookie with the white royal icing.
- Flood the cookie and use either a needle/scriber or a toothpick for leveling the icing.
- Immediately add the desired color, and with the scriber or a toothpick, draw a design. This has to be done before the royal icing dries.
- Finish the cookie by adding sugar motifs to recreate the ugly sweater.
- Allow the cookie to dry for a few minutes.
Notes
- The ugly sweater holiday cookies require a good amount of white royal icing. When ordering your cookie kits, include a bag of royal icing mix and an assortment of holiday sprinkles.
- The cookie kits include limited options in terms of sprinkles and sugar motifs. It is nice to have an assortment of those for making many different ugly sweater cookie designs.