Decorating Sugar Cookies

Since December is such a busy month with all the Christmas gatherings and family vacations, we only had one Keeper's meeting this year.  The meeting was at Sis. Annette's house where we learned different techniques for decorating sugar cookies.

...sugar cookies ready to be decorated...

 

Lillia mixing up some icing...

 

 One of the techniques we used was "Marbling".
Take a plain sugar cookie and pipe a border of icing.  If you don't pipe a border, your icing will run off the sides of the cookie and ruin your design.  Then you fill in your circle/square, depending on what cookie you are decorating.


Then you take two different colors of icing and "scribble" on your base icing.

Taking a toothpick, drag it through your icing one way, wipe it off, then take it back over the cookie the opposite direction.  This creates a "marbled" look.

 We also "stamped" sugar cookies.

We rolled the chilled dough into balls then pressed them down with terra cotta cookie stamps which had snowflake, snowmen, and Christmas tree designs on them. It helps if you dust your dough ball with flour so the stamp doesn't stick and ruin your design! We then baked the stamped cookies at 350 degrees F for 8 minutes.  When they came out of the oven they had neat little designs imprinted on the top!

 

Hope and Faith decorate cookies using edible markers and stencils...

 

We also used rubber stamps to decorate a few cookies.

Make sure your icing is hard because when you press down on the stamp your icing will crack if it isn't completely hardened.

Faith and Joy display some of their creations :)

 We certainly had fun decorating these yummy Christmas treats!
Thank you to Sis. Annette for teaching us the different ways to decorate sugar cookies!

~Kaitlyn