PhDCupcaker

One day…. a long time ago (before Christmas!) I was thinking about branching out from my usual cupcake and making some cookies. Since I am currently on “Spring Break”  I thought I should finally post these.

I was searching on the Internet for some cool Christmas sugar cookies and I came across one of my new favorite sites – Sweetopia! There were some really good directions about using Royal Icing to decorate your cookies. I thought the cookies on the site looked so good – really professional, like the gourmet cookies you can find. I thought for my first attempt  I would try to make some Christmas Trees. I found a great recipe for Rolled Chocolate Cookie dough in the Cookie Craft Christmas book. Check it out on page 7. They were pretty tasty! I made the cookies at home and brought them to my parents in New York for decorating. Once we got there, I made Antonia74’s Royal Icing that I found on Sweetopia. I kept about half of the icing white and died the other half green using some Wilton icing color. It took me a little while to get the right consistency. I had to add additional water until it was right. Sweetopia has some great tutorials and tips including the 10 Second Royal Icing Rule. Check out all of the great tutorials! After using a pastry bag to apply the royal icing I sprinkled each with some white sanding sugar. I am partial to the green ones – I think they came out really cute. I’ve been meaning to try to make some more cookies…. I just haven’t gotten around to it. One of these days…..