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Christmas Cookie Decorating Ideas: From Easy to Skilled
Christmas cookie decorating ideas.
If you are coming here through the 'How to Decorate Holiday Cookies' page, you'll see this Christmas page is one in a great many!
Making sugar cookies takes us back to our childhood. Oh, the smell in the house, the vibrant colors, and the family.
What's on this page of Christmas Cookie Decorating Ideas:
1. Things you need
2. Simple decorated Christmas cookies
3. Moderately decorated Christmas cookies
4. Skilled decorated Christmas cookies
I'll also include some videos and cookie-cutter flips along the way!
Christmas cookie decorating ideas. What you need to start
I know you want to dive right in, but let's get a little organized. A full list of items that are needed in the following sections is on this page: Best Cookie Decorating Tools (for getting ready for any cookies). But, to begin the Christmas Cookie Decorating Ideas page, this is what to prepare with:
- The best sugar cookie recipe
- the best baking sheets
- My supreme royal icing recipe (glaze, or dreamy buttercream recipe)
- cookie cutters
If you haven't already, you may want to take a gander at my How to Bake Sugar Cookies and How to Make Professional Cookies. There's a lot of great information and shortcuts as well!
Does royal icing make you nervous? See my page on Royal Icing Flooding and get the 3-page download on tips to prevent color bleed as well.
For Christmas cookie decorating ideas, consider preparing by taking a baking sheet or tray with all your supplies on it. For instance:
- scribe or toothpick
- sprinkles
- sanding sugar
- food color markers
- piping tips for cookies
- icing bags filled with icing or buttercream
- extra piping bags
- paper towels
Maybe you want to make some Christmas cookies on a stick? You can refer to this page to see how I do it.
Christmas cookie decorating ideas. Simple decorated cookies.
Christmas cookies do not have to be extravagant to catch the eye. It also does not matter if you are not a professional. Though they are very nice to have, you do not have to have a cookie projector (this is the one I have and love). Nor do you need an airbrush system (this is also the one I have and love).
Here are some simple Christmas cookie decorating ideas, especially if you have little hands helping you!
To make the trees even easier, pipe outlines of triangles for the trees and flood them.
Christmas cookie decorating ideas can be as easy as turning a turkey leg upside-down and making it into a Santa's toy bag, like above. Love saving money? Repurpose cutters by flipping them: Cookie Cutter Flips
I had an old metal candlestick cutter for over 10 years and never used it. Why didn't I utilize it before? So easy!
One of my faithful standby cookies. I use Rudolph every year! So fun, cute, and simple.
Mr. Frosty is another simple and fun cutter shape. Tip: turn Frosty upside-down for a gumball machine!
You just can't get much easier than stockings. Use any color. To step it up, pipe holly and berries, use airbrushing, or take food color markers to make stitches on the toe and heel. Not sure what food markers to get? See my breakdown of 7 brands here: Food Color Markers
This is my all-time favorite cutter, the Santa boot. It can be easy or more complex, depending on your preference.
Christmas cookie decorating ideas. Moderately decorated cookies.
One reason I've deemed this section as moderate is that many of the cookies have been airbrushed. Airbrushing means learning a new technique and how it's applied. When first beginning to decorate sugar cookies, there's a lot to learn. This is an extra step.
Learn all about learning this technique: Airbrushing Cookies
This section also includes adding more details.
Okay, I may have lied. I do very much like this Christmas light bulb. So it's a tie between this and the Santa boot! Whether you airbrush it or not, it always turns out amazing. Such a great shape!
This Christmas greeting cookie was morphed, meaning I used 2 cutters and combined them. The unicorn horn cutter was perfect for a Christmas tree!
The cookie that always brings a smile. Hey, snowmen can have fun too!
A basic sweater cookie cutter to which I added an extra technique.
By taking a well-crusted flood, add some outline consistency with squiggly lines. Take a paintbrush used for food, and start lightly dabbing it around. It gives a warm, fuzzy look. Add this texture to baby nightgown cookies and blankets, too.
As you can tell. Many shapes can be relatively easy to decorate. Adding airbrushing takes it up a notch. Adding even a small amount of piping on top of a crusted flood adds depth but also another level of skill.
There are 2 kinds of airbrushes. I have them both and use them each depending on whether I have a huge order or a small one. Here are the ones I couldn't part with!
The cordless...
- Airbrush with battery
- USB faster charging & longer working time
- Package includes 1 liquid extraction dropper, 5 spray gun cleaners, 5 wash needles, 3 capacity cups, USB charging cable, a user manual, and a pink art airbrush gun
This is a super buy as you get 3 airbrushes, a hose, a compressor, etc. The compressor, by the way, is very quiet...
-3 airbrushes with compressor
-dual and single-action airbrushes
-6’ braided hose and a compressor-mounted airbrush holder for 2 guns
--Read more benefits
Here are the airbrush colors you'll need...
- AmeriMist air brush colors are super strength, highly concentrated spray-on air brush food colors
- Extremely effective, even on hard-to-color non-dairy whipped toppings and icings
- 12, .65 ounce flip-top bottles
Christmas cookie decorating ideas for the more skilled artist
The decorating ideas include highly detailed sugar cookies. This level includes:
-several consistencies
-different textures and techniques
-many colors
-piped detail work
-usually use of a cookie projector
-frequent use of luster dust
The Christmas bow shows airbrushing (of course), piping fine greenery and more, with candy cane sprinkles.
The greenery on the ornaments was created using a cookie projector. Luster dust and several consistencies were also used.
A close-up view of the Christmas ornaments showcases the intricate details.
It's always fun to have a cookie-cutter flip work out! These mittens were made using turkey cookies left over from Thanksgiving!
I told you the Santa boot was a favorite. Don't you just love what airbrushing does for it? Adding white sanding sugar really makes it sparkle.
So Frosty made another appearance! This time, adding airbrushed trees in the background adds more depth. He thinks so, too.
Christmas cookie decorating ideas would not be complete without the old truck and Christmas tree! I'm betting by now, if you don't have one, an airbrush is looking pretty appealing, isn't it?
Christmas cookie decorating ideas. Bonus video!!
Here is a bonus video on how I make deep and bright red royal icing for Christmas (and Valentine's Day).
That wraps it up! I hope I justified your visit to "Christmas Cookie Decorating Ideas". A very Merry Christmas to you!
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