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 Spring Showers 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 Spring Showers 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 Sun Cookie with Buttercream Icing
- Pipe a circle outline around the edge of the cookie, just inside the rays.
- Fill in the center circle using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Outline each triangle ray.
- Fill in each ray individually using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Add candy eyeball sprinkles. Use a toothpick or a scribe tool to scoot sprinkles as needed. Or consider using sprinkle tweezers for exact placement.
- Pipe a curved smile and dots for rosy cheeks.
PRO TIP: Using candy eyeball sprinkles cuts down on the number of icing colors needed and ensures a more uniform look to the cookie set.
Decorate a Rain Boot Cookie with Buttercream Icing
- Pipe stripes of icing horizontally across the cookie.
- Pipe two stripes of each color and then alternate the colors creating a pattern.
- Pipe a thin line straight across the middle of the top section of icing to create a strap.
- Pipe a dot in the center of the strap to create a button.
PRO TIP: Pipe a white outline around the entire edge of the boot cookie if you are having trouble piping your horizontal colored stripes the same length. This will give the cookie a clear and defined edge.
Decorate an Umbrella Cookie with Buttercream Icing
- Pipe an outline starting at the center point of the top of the umbrella and using the scallops as your guide on the bottom. Outline two vertical sections, dividing the umbrella into five different sections total.
- Fill in the vertical sections using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Sprinkle these two center sections with sanding sugar. Shake off the excess.
- Pipe an outline around the three remaining vertical sections, starting at the center point of the top of the umbrella and using the scallops as your guide on the bottom.
- Fill in the vertical sections using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Pipe an outline around the finial at the top.
- Fill in the finial using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Pipe an outline around the handle at the bottom.
- Fill in the handle using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Pipe random dots of color on the three vertical sections on the outsides and center of the umbrella.
PRO TIP: Place your cookie in a coffee filter to catch the sanding sugar as you sprinkle it over the icing. This keeps your decorating table clean and allows you to easily pour the excess sanding sugar back into its container. Or, consider filling a shallow bowl or plate with sanding sugar. Hold the umbrella cookie upside down and lightly press the cookie into the sanding sugar so that it sticks to the icing.
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 Spring Showers Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Icing including a Sun, Umbrella and Rain Boot. 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 Spring Showers Sugar Cookie Decorating Tutorial. Learn to decorate the same Spring Showers cookies with royal icing in different designs that can also be translated to buttercream icing.
