How to Decorate Cookies Using Fondant

Fondant is popular for decorating cakes, but it's also a great medium for decorating cookies. If you're making cookies for a contest, or for a party where you really want to impress the guests, then fondant is the way to go.

Instructions

1. Cover the entire cookie with fondant for a sleek, smooth appearance. Make a batch of quick pour fondant, pour it into an icing bag, add a tip and pour the fondant over the cookie. Use a small spatuala on the edges and then let the fondant dry.

2. Add fondant decorations to cookies covered with fondant by rolling out a sheet of fondant and using mini cookie cutters to cut out small shapes. You can cut out small fondant circles by using the bottom of a clean pen cap.

3. Make fondant hat cookies for a tea party or girl's birthday party. Bake a batch of round sugar cookies and attach with icing half of a large marshmallow or a small, round cookie to the top. Roll out fondant and cut a circle larger than the cookie, drape over the cookie, trim the edges and decorate with fondant flowers and ribbon.

4. Make imprinted fondant by rolling out a sheet of fondant. Then take a textured material, such as lace, and lay it on top of the fondant. Secure the material with tape and firmly roll over the material with a rolling pin so that the texture is embedded into the fondant. Cut the fondant into the shape of your cookie, and apply it to cookies fresh from the oven so that the heat attaches the fondant to the cookie.

5. Ice cookies with regular icing and make fondant flowers, shapes, ribbons and other decorations and attach to the icing. You can make pink fondant ribbons for breast cancer cookies, red, white and blue stars for July 4th cookies or black and orange stripes for Halloween cookies.