Decorate Sugar Cookies Just Like the Pros
You can learn to beautifully decorate sugar cookies just like you see on social media and I can teach you how! Whether you like to learn from pictures and text or videos and words, I've got you covered! I have created photo Cookie Cards and a Video Tutorial so that you can choose your method of instruction.
*This tutorial is provided for those that have purchased my annually offered Buttercream Icing Easter Cookie Decorating Kit. If you are creating the cookies and icing on your own, I decorate with American Buttercream.
Cookie Cards: Sugar Cookie Decorating Guides
Use my Cookie Cards below as a guide to decorate your Easter sugar cookies. Step by step photos plus written instructions give you all the details that you need to create beautifully decorated sugar cookies of your own.
Decorate a Flower Cookie with Buttercream Icing
- Pipe a dot in the center of the cookie. Outline one petal at a time, using the center dot as the starting point.
- Fill in each petal individually using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Pipe a circle over the center dot and fill in with icing in a circular motion.
- Add sprinkles to the center of the flower. Use a toothpick or a scribe tool to scoot any runaway sprinkles.
PRO TIP: For easier more exact sprinkle application, consider filling a shallow bowl or plate with sprinkles. Hold the flower cookie upside down and lightly press the center icing into the sprinkles so that they stick.
Decorate a Bunny Cookie with Buttercream Icing
- Pipe an outline around the edge of the cookie.
- Fill in the cookie using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Pipe pink oval inner ears, dot cheeks and a heart nose.
- Pipe blue dot eyes. For the bunny's basket, pipe an oval outline and fill in the bottom half with a back and forth motion creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Add sprinkles to the bunny's basket. Use a toothpick or a scribe tool to scoot any runaway sprinkles. Or consider using sprinkle tweezers for exact placement.
PRO TIP: For an alternate design, pipe and fill the entire bunny cookie with a fun pastel color and then add a big white tail creating a rear view of the bunny cookie.
Decorate an Easter Egg Cookie with Buttercream Icing
- Pipe an outline around the edge of the cookie.
- Fill in the cookie using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Create whichever top design for the egg that you desire or copy my design.
- First, I piped blue loops in the center, top and bottom of the egg,
- Next, I piped two pink squiggle lines in between the three blue loops.
- Lastly, I piped white dots in between the blue loops and pink squiggles.
PRO TIP: Be sure to cut the openings of the icing bags small enough to be able to achieve detailed top designs on the egg cookie.
Step by Step Sugar Cookie Decorating VIDEO Tutorial
Visual Learner? Let's Decorate Cookies Together!
Follow along to my step by step video tutorial. Learn how to decorate Easter Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Icing including an Easter Egg, Bunny and Flower. I break down the decorating process into easy to follow steps and give you helpful tips along the way.
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Want to Learn More?!
Looking for more inspiration? Check out my Royal Icing Easter Sugar Cookie Decorating Tutorial. Learn to decorate the same Easter cookies with royal icing in different designs that can also be translated to buttercream icing.
