The Decorated Cookie May be Stepping Up

Look out cakes! the decorated cookies are gaining in popularity. Have you seen the cookies out there now? They look like little pieces of artwork. The Sugar Cookie is the canvas and the royal icing the paint. What I absolutely love about these cookies is that they can be customizable to meet your celebration needs.



Having a birthday party for your little guy who is obsessed with Mario Bros.? Get him the themed cake and get decorated Mario cookies to give to his guests as part of or in lieu of the loot bag.






A little girl who loves the Backyardigans and you want to make the cake and cookies match.








Even cuter for baby showers, take this monkey theme for instance, everything compliments each other very well and the shower guests get to take home a lovely thank you gift.





Then there are the seasonal holidays like Christmas, Halloween, Easter, etc.. Cookies are fun to make and do not require as much ingredients and hard work as cakes do. They can be made in advance and stored for up to 4 weeks in an airtight container, although I try not to go past the 2 week mark, just to be on the safe side. So for the holidays you have more than enough time to get the Christmas cookies ready for your kid's class, the Easter cookies for the Easter Egg Hunt or the Halloween cookies for your haunted Halloween bash.

Great recipes for Sugar cookies can be found on online such as Wilton's Roll-Out-Cookie recipe or Martha Stewart's Sugar Cookie recipe . I have used both these recipes and they have become my favourites. For the Royal Icing recipe I always use the same one because it's never failed me, Wilton's Royal Icing. I particularly like this recipe because it does not call for raw eggs to be used, which are replaced with the Meringue Powder. With these two recipes you should be set to start making your own unique decorated cookies. 

-Happy Baking