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 Sweets Cookie Decorating Kit. If you are creating the cookies and icing on your own, I decorate with American Buttercream.
Sweets Cookie Cutters
Cookie Cards: Sugar Cookie Decorating Guides
Use my Cookie Cards below as a guide to decorate your Sweets 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 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.
- Add mini chocolate chips
PRO TIP: For an alternate design, try decorating this cookie as a donut by leaving a circle of bare cookie in the middle as the donut hole and then adding colored icing and sprinkles on top.
Decorate an Ice Cream Cookie
with Buttercream Icing
- Pipe an outline around the cone.
- Fill in the cone using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Pipe an outline around the bottom scoop and fill in using a back and forth motion.
- Pipe an outline around the middle scoop and fill in using a back and forth motion.
- Pipe an outline around the top scoop and fill in using a back and forth motion.
- Pipe an outline around the cone on top of the existing icing.
- Pipe a horizontal line across the cone separating the top from the bottom.
- Pipe diagonal criss cross lines on the bottom of the cone.
PRO TIP: Be sure to cut the opening of the icing bag small enough to be able to achieve the detailed waffle design on the cone.
Decorate a Cupcake Cookie
with Buttercream Icing
- Pipe an outline around the icing top of the cupcake cookie.
- Fill in using a back and forth motion, creating horizontal lines of icing.
- Add sprinkles to the icing top of the cupcake cookie.
- Pipe an outline around the cupcake liner.
- Fill in the liner using an up and down motion, creating vertical lines of icing.
- Alternate colors to create a striped liner.
PRO TIP: For fluffier icing, decorate the top of the cupcake cookie in small circles instead of a back and forth motion.
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 Sweets Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Icing including a Cookie, Ice Cream and Cupcake. 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 Sweets Sugar Cookie Decorating Tutorial. Learn to decorate the same Sweets cookies with royal icing in different designs that can also be translated to buttercream icing.
