You ll thin the royal icing with a bit of water stirring gently as you go until when you run a knife through the bowl of icing the line disappears in about 20 seconds.

Cookie decorating kids. Grown ups make the icing first you ll want to make the royal icing. Opt for decorating object shaped cookies it s easier. Cover dough and chill for 2 hours. 10 genius cookie decorating hacks your kids can easily master 1.

Last week i visited my daughter s school and led a fun food class all veggies for this sweets free school. Instructions in a large bowl cream together butter and 1 1 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. The key is making the cookies and royal icing at least a day before decorating. A circular cookie seems like the easiest to decorate right.

Pour the icing into a squeeze bottle and cover the cooled cookies. Combine the confectioners sugar water. Well i went back with some cookies and icing in hand for a cookie decorating session with her class twenty plus four and five year olds there was no avoiding the sweets part with this one no matter how healthy i tried to get with the recipes but we. Kids go to town.

Grown ups handle food coloring as my daughter said the coloring part can get messy. Love vibrant cookie icing but want to skip artifical dyes. Gradually add dry ingredients mixing slowly until fully absorbed. Cookie decorating with kids.

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