Cookie Decorating Tips For You
The most iconic Christmas cookie just may be the cutout sugar cookie. While many bakers have visions of beautifully decorated sugar cookies in their heads, some may not know the many and varied ways that they can be decorated. If you want to decorate some wonderful cookies this Christmas, don’t be daunted by all the possibilities; just read on for some tips on how to have the most spectacularly decorated Christmas cookies you have ever made.
• The gold standard for decorating Christmas sugar cookies is done with bags of icing. An inexpensive amount of money for decorating bags, tips and other attachments can make your cookies look like they are from an expensive gourmet bakery. Keep in mind though that first attempts at decorating this way often produce a slightly clumsy result. With time and practice your decorating techniques will get better. There are several web sites, books and magazines that can give detailed descriptions of various decorating techniques.
• If you do not wish to purchase decorating bags and tips there is a cheaper, easier and disposable option available in most grocery stores. You can purchase tubes of frosting, already colored with a decorating tip on the end. (Think tube of toothpaste just filled with yummy frosting instead!) There is also an assortment of sprinkles, sparkles, and candy that can be used with this type of frosting decoration as well. The main advantages of this type of decorating is that there is no making and coloring of frosting, no loading of decorating bags (which can be messy and difficult), and the entire thing is simply thrown away when you are done so there is virtually no clean-up. In addition these types of decorating tubes need very little skill for a pretty good decorating result.