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 Royal Icing Easter Cookie Decorating Kit. If you are creating the cookies and icing on your own, I use medium flood royal icing to both outline and flood the cookies.
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 Royal Icing
- Pipe an outline around the edge of the cookie.
- Following the outline, flood the entire cookie working towards the center.
- Give the cookie a gentle shake by moving it back and forth to even out the royal icing. If needed, use a toothpick or scribe tool to move the icing around on the cookie to fill in any gaps or holes.
- Let the base layer of royal icing dry for at least 20 minutes before you add top layers. You can speed up the drying time of your royal icing by using a small table fan or dehydrator on the lowest setting.
- Flood a circle in the center of the flower and add sprinkles.
- Pipe a decorative outline around the edge of the cookie.
PRO TIP: Sprinkles will stick to wet royal icing. Make sure the base layer of royal icing is dry before adding sprinkles to the center of the flower.
Decorate a Bunny Cookie with Royal Icing using the Wet on Wet Technique
- Pipe an outline around the edge of the cookie.
- Following the outline, flood the entire cookie working towards the center.
- Give the cookie a gentle shake by moving it back and forth to even out the royal icing. If needed, use a toothpick or scribe tool to move the icing around on the cookie to fill in any gaps or holes.
- While the base layer of royal icing is still wet, pipe the polka dots. Let the polka dots sink into the base layer of royal icing. If needed, use a toothpick or scribe tool to poke each dot down.
- Add sprinkles to the base of the cookie.
PRO TIP: To achieve a seamlessly smooth wet on wet design, flood the cookie quickly and then add the design while the base layer of royal icing is still wet. This creates a flat design that looks like a background pattern rather than a raised top design on the cookie.
Decorate an Easter Egg Cookie with Royal Icing using the Marbling Technique
- Flood the cookie in stripes using alternating colors in whichever combination you desire. Start with the top and bottom of the egg and work your way toward the center creating stripes of color with similar widths.
- Using a toothpick or scribe tool, scrape a line through the icing in the center of the cookie from bottom to top. Scrape two more lines through the icing from bottom to top, each on either side of the center line, essentially dividing the cookie into four sections.
- Scrape four more lines through the icing in between the three lines that you created in step 2, but this time scrape from top to bottom.
- Give the cookie a gentle shake by moving it back and forth to even out the royal icing. If needed, use a toothpick or scribe tool to move the icing around on the cookie to fill in any gaps or holes.
PRO TIP: To achieve a seamlessly smooth marbling design, flood the cookie quickly and marble with a toothpick or scribe tool immediately before the royal icing begins to dry.
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 Royal 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 Buttercream Icing Easter Sugar Cookie Decorating Tutorial. Learn to decorate the same Easter cookies with buttercream icing in different designs that can also be translated to royal icing.
