How to Decorate Rolled Sugar Cookies Before Baking

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make a variety of different rolled sugar cookies. Now that we have a baking sheet full of our cookies it's almost time to put them in the oven. But there is one more thing we can do that will help make our cookies special. Before we put them in the oven we can decorate them as well as after. Now what I'm going to do is use colored sugars to decorate these cookies. If you use colored sugar before you put the cookies in the oven then you don't necessarily need to decorate them when they come out. This is an easy way to more quickly decorate your cookies. Now I'm going to show you with our lovely bells that we cut out. Because these have the great indications it's going to capture a lot of the sugar. If you don't have as distinguish indication you can also gently pat the sugar into your cookies once it bakes, it's going to stick anyway. You shouldn't have too much of it coming off you can use green, red, various different colored sugars. You can also use multi color sprinkles if you want to. I'm just going to show you some more, put the red sugar. By using the decorating technique before you put the cookies in to bake you'll be saving yourself some time afterwards. Also if you want to decorate with colored sugars in general it won't stick to the cookies after they come out of the oven unless you ice them first. So if you just want some simple colored sugars on your cookies it's best to do it before you ever stick them in the oven."