How to Pipe and Fill Cookies
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How to Pipe and Fill Cookies
Royal icing — that stiff icing you make for gingerbread houses — does double duty for these festive cookies.
Step 1
Start with your holiday cookies, baked and cooled.
Step 2
Using thick royal icing, pipe a line around the outside of each cookie.
Step 3
Thin the icing with water, and stir well …
Step 4
… until it’s pourable.
Step 5
Carefully pipe it inside the outline you made with the stiffer icing …
Step 6
… until the whole cookie is covered.
Step 7
Once that’s dry, keep decorating. Add another layer of royal icing lines, or …
Step 8
… add dragees or nonpareils.
Step 9
Let it snow!
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