How to Use Frosting to Decorate Sugar Cookies

Frosting makes easy decoration for a sugar cookie.

Sugar cookies are a baking classic that are fun to bake on your own or with kids to celebrate a birthday or an upcoming holiday. Decorating the sugar cookies with frosting can add a unique and decorative touch to each cookie, making for a special treat. There are some tips and techniques you can initiate when decorating cookies with frosting, to make sure you get the best consistency and color from your frosting. This will make each cookie come out looking like it was treated by a professional. Does this Spark an idea?

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Frosting
Bowls
Food coloring
Spoons
Cream
Butter knives
Sugar cookies
Cookie sheet
Wax paper

Instructions

- 1
  
  Divide white frosting into a series of bowls, using one bowl of frosting for each color you want to make.
- 2
  
  Drip four drops of food coloring into each bowl to make different colors. For secondary colors, mix food colorings. Two drops of red and two drops of blue makes purple, two drops of yellow and two drops of blue makes green; two drops of red and two drops of yellow makes oranges. Stir the food coloring well into the frosting bowls.
- 3
  
  Add a 1 tsp. of cream to each bowl to thin out the frosting and make it easier to spread onto the cookies.
- 4
  
  Spread the colored frosting over each cookie using a butter knife to achieve a thin, even layer of frosting on each cookie.
- 5
  
  Place each frosted cookie onto a sheet of wax paper over a cookie sheet. Place the filled tray of frosted cookies into the refrigerator for an hour, allowing the frosting to set.