ABC Cookies How-To

Image & recipe thanks to Lucks.com!

You will need:

• No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe
• 4" Fancy Square Cutter or regular 4" square cutter
• School Assortment Sugars
• Royal Icing
• Squeeze Bottles

Directions:

1. Make your favorite cut-out cookie recipe and use a the fancy square cutter to cut shapes; in lieu of a fancy cutter, a large square cutter may be used.
2. These cookies are iced using the run sugar method. To make icing for this method, mix a batch of royal icing and set aside 1/3 of the regular recipe. Take the remaining 2/3 and thin it down with warm water. To test for correct consistency, drop thinned royal icing from your spatula into the royal icing in the bowl. If the drop disappears by the count of 10, the royal icing has reached correct consistency.
3. Setting aside some white run icing, use food colors in Orange, Sky Blue and Neon Green to color the remaining icing. Separate the blue icing into two batches, and mix one half with white run icing to lighten, and mix the other with a scant amount of neon green icing to create a slightly turquoise tone. Use Red and Black to tint a portion of the regular recipe.
4. Pipe white square outlines as shown. When the outlines have dried slightly, fill in illustrated designs. For frame dots, paper lines, and paper doll chain, pipe all patterns while the background is still wet, so that the images settle flush. Allow to dry completely.
5. After your icing has set up, pipe all letters using regular royal icing and finish with School Assortment Dec-Ons® decorations.

Decorating idea by Charra Jarosz