Christmas cookies are a staple of the holiday season and with good reason. To decorate Christmas cookies, however, you’ll need an imagination, a steady hand, and plenty of candy. Start with basic sugar cookie dough. Use cookie cutters to cut out different shapes from the dough and bake.
When the cookies are cool, you can use icing in tubes to outline the cookies however you like and then add candy for detailing. For example, a gingerbread man shaped cookie can be outlined in green icing. Little dabs of white icing will help to hold his candy buttons in place. A line of red icing makes a cute mouth and two black or brown dots make his eyes.
The trickiest part of this cooking game is outlining the cookie. To make a good outline, you’ll have to have a very steady hand as you trace the outside of the cookie and as you squeeze the icing out of the tube. The professionals have years of practice, but you don’t have years – you only have minutes or maybe hours. Do spend some time practicing on a separate piece of cardboard to perfect your techniques as much as possible before getting started.
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