Christmas Cookie Decorating Tips

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you some really quick and easy icing recipes and how to decorate holiday cookies. All right these are some snickerdoodles I made, which is a sugar cookie with cinnamon sugar on top. I also pressed a chocolate chip into each one when I cooked them. The chocolate chip as you can see becomes part of the cookie. But say I decide after I make these, I want to add some color to them. And the problem is that after these harden up, like these are crunchy, these were made earlier. You can't really add sugar to it, because what happens is, I'll show you. I'll take some red sprinkles for example. Well I put them on there, and then you pick the cookie up, and they fall right off. So the way to fix that, obviously one is you could, you know you could do your work on them as they come out of the oven while they are still soft. Or you can just take a tiny bit of water and a brush, and you don't want water to be beaded on them, you just want a tiny bit of moisture on the cookie. And if you can get some moisture on the outside of that cookie. Oops, I just hit the camera. Then you can take your sprinkles, give it a second and let it dry and those sprinkles will stick. You could also take sugar water, which is a pretty popular way to do this too, and or also if you had a mister bottle, like a spray mister, that's a really good way to do it as well. It really atomizes the particles of the water well, and they better stick to the cookies. So we'll do some holiday snickerdoodles here, and you'll see what happens is you pick the cookie up and it doesn't fall off. This is something you do as a last resort. Obviously the best way to do this, is to do it you know right after they come out of the oven. Do it then so that way it really sticks. But this is a good way in case you weren't really paying attention or change your mind. You know it will still fall off, but not as easily as the other way. So the last minute save yourself holiday tip."