Holiday Cookie Decorating
The hosts share fresh, fun and festive ideas for decorating holiday cookies.
Jason DeCrow
Marbled Star Cookies
What you'll need:
- Blue food coloring
- White royal icing
- Toothpicks
- Star-shaped sugar cookies
How to:
- Add a few drops of blue food coloring to a bowl of royal icing.
- Swirl in the food coloring with a toothpick.
- Dip the top of a sugar cookie in the icing.
- Rotate your hand to create a swirl effect.
- Let the excess drip off into the bowl.
- Place on a rack to dry and harden.
- Repeat the dipping process with the next cookie, adding a few more drops of coloring after every few cookies.
Jason DeCrow
Snowflake Gingerbread Cookies
What you'll need:
- Snowflake stencils
- Round gingerbread cookies
- Confectioners' sugar
How to:
- Lay a snowflake stencil on top of a gingerbread cookie.
- Sift confectioners' sugar over the cookie.
- Remove the stencil.
- Repeat with the remaining cookies.
Jason DeCrow
Down the Chimney Cookie Stacks
What you'll need:
- Red licorice
- Melted white chocolate
- Large black jelly beans
- Chocolate-covered graham cookies
- White frosting
- Red frosting
How to:
Santa Leg Decorations:
- Cut the licorice pieces in half.
- Dip one end of a piece of licorice in the melted white chocolate.
- Add a black jelly bean to the end of the licorice on top of the white chocolate.
- Repeat to make a pair of Santa legs.
- Repeat with the remaining licorice pieces, melted chocolate and jelly beans.
Cookie Stack Chimney:
- Stack 4 to 5 chocolate-covered graham cookies with white frosting in between each layer.
- Spread red frosting on top of the chimney stack.
- Attach a pair of Santa legs to the cookie stack licorice-side down (jelly bean-side up).
- Repeat with the remaining ingredients.