Whether you’re decorating cookies for this Easter weekend or just making some for spring, these cookies are easy and fun! I’ll jump right into the tutorial, sharing decorating videos and all the tools and tips on making these below.
Video – How to Decorate Spring or Easter Cookies with Royal Icing
If you enjoy watching the video on different platforms, I’ve listed the various places on social media you can find it:
Cookie Design Ideas and Cutter Sources
Thanks to the following sources for the cookie cutters and design inspiration!
- Bunny Cutter from How Sweet is That?
- Floral Basket or Bag Cutter from The Cookiery, decorations based on The Miller’s Wife Custom Cookies design
- Daisy Cutter by SweetLeighPrinted
- Carrot Cookie Cutter
- Large Egg Cutter
Projector for Tracing on Cookies
The decorating techniques might be easy for those talented at drawing, but since I’m not the best at it, I like using a projector to help with the design. If you’d like to try the projector for this or other projects, my tutorial is HERE.
Royal Icing Recipe and Icing Consistencies
You can find my favorite royal icing recipe here. The consistency of icing is key for easy decorating. Click here to see a YouTube video on finding the right icing thickness.
Complete Guide to Royal Icing PDF
You can find my Complete Guide to Royal Icing Consistency here.
Cookie Recipe
I used my Cream Cheese Rollout Sugar Cookie Recipe and my Confetti Sugar Cookie Recipe (with Easter sprinkles) for these. If you’d like to try a different cookie base, other recipes can be found here.
Cookie Design Icing Consistencies
All the icing consistencies are medium, unless mentioned otherwise. You can find my Complete Guide to Royal Icing Consistency here.
Cookie Decorating Basics
Here are some posts which take you through cookie decorating basics. If you’re a beginner, you can use these videos as a guide to basic decorating. I’ll mention details unique to each cookie in each cookie section below:
{Video} Cookie Decorating Tools & How to Fill a Piping Bag
{Video} How to Outline and Flood Cookies with Royal Icing
{Video} How to Dry Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing
Decorating Tools
What you’ll need (The Amazon links are affiliate links):
- Piping Tips 1.5
- Piping Tips 4-6
- Piping Bags
- Tipless Piping Bags
- Couplers
- Americolor Gel Colors; Avocado, Espresso, Forest Green
- Wilton Gel Colors; Pink, Brown, White
- Rainbow Dust ProGel Colors; Pink, Cream, Poppy, Lemon, Sunflower, Strawberry, Ice Blue
- Scribe Tool or Toothpicks
- Gold Luster Dust
- Raspberry Vodka
- Rainbow Dust Edible Ink Food Coloring Pens
- Pico Projector or Magnasonic Projector
- Arkon Remarkable Creators Phone and Tablet Stand (20% off with coupon code sweetopia)
- Mini Gingham Bows
- Mini Colored Bows
Piping Bags
In terms of piping bags, I mainly used tipless piping bags for very fine details and PME 1.5 piping tips for most piping, and larger piping tips such as 4 to 6 to flood larger surfaces.
Puffy Royal Icing
If you’d like some tips and tricks on how to get that puffy royal icing look, I have a Digital Download Tutorial in my shop.
Daisy and Egg Floral Cookie Notes:
Besides the basics to decorating which I’ve shared above, here are a few notes about the the floral cookies:
- For all of them, if I piped fine lines, the icing was a medium-thick consistency.
- I used my Magnasonic Projector projector to project the designs and trace, as I’m not the best at freehand drawing. The floral designs on the eggs are from a greeting card.
- For the gold accents, I mixed raspberry vodka with gold luster dust.
- It’s best to let the icing dry for at least a few minutes before adding the gold accents.
- For fine lines, I prefer to use a Tipless Piping Bag.
Floral Bag or Basket Cookie Notes:
Besides the basics to decorating which I’ve shared above, here are a few notes about the the basket cookies:
- I used PME tip #1 to pipe the lines.
- You can find a detailed video tutorial on piping lines, HERE.
Bunny Cookie Notes:
Besides the basics to decorating which I’ve shared above, here are a few notes about the the bunny cookies:
- Let the base dry for at least a few hours before adding the eyes, especially if you’re piping a dark color (I used Americolor Espresso Brown), onto white.
- The ribbons are fabric and adhered with a tiny dab of royal icing. Easy to remove before eating. I make sure to tell those receiving the cookies that the ribbon needs to be removed. Most people would know, but good to mention just in case.
- The bunny tail is medium-thick icing.
I think those are all the basics! Please feel free to ask me any questions in the comment section or on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and YouTube.
Happy Easter to you!
xo,
Marian
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