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Decorated Baby Shower Cookies: Ideas, Techniques, and Tips

This Decorated Baby Shower Cookies page includes these sections:

☑️Inspiration idea sets

☑️ easy Decorating techniques

☑️Popular cutters for either gender

☑️My new royal icing transfer templates for both genders

To stay on top of your game by preparing ahead of time for these decorated baby shower cookies, go ahead and make the best sugar cookies. Grab my free Superior Royal Icing, glaze recipe, and the best crusting buttercream, too. (Yes, I have you covered 😉).

If the baby shower is a ways out, having these cut out and baked will ease the pressure. Just pop them in the freezer, thaw, and decorate when you are ready.

Now let's get started with some inspiration and ideas!

Decorated baby shower cookies: ideas you can steal to drive customers in!

A darling photo of a crib scene against a striped wall. I piped a round name plaque on the 'wall' behind the crib and added a little picture and hearts.

➡️Single arch cookie cutter by Sugar Rex on Etsy

Here are some decorated baby shower cookies for your inspiration. When a customer sends cookie pictures from the internet, I very often will tell them I will make the theme similar and add and take away cookie-cutter shapes. This way, it makes the set personal, not something everyone else gets.

I will include links to some special cutters I especially like.

I will add a sidebar. Are you having problems with cracked icing after it is dried, or icing running off the cookie? Do you struggle with air bubbles or flat icing instead of puffy? Like most, is color bleed a thorn in your side?

WeCookiers to the rescue again! See my Royal Icing Flooding page and get a free 2-page download that covers (I hope) all of your frustrations.

Now back to baby cookies...

This was my first decorated baby shower cookie set. It was the only cutters I had for babies at the time (4). As you see, you do not need very many to make an adorable set...

These are some decorated baby shower cookies with royal icing for a girl.

Here is the set from the 1st video on this page, you can pin to Pinterest for later inspiration...

Sweet gender reveal for a baby shower. Decorated in pinks and blues, the theme is 'Little Mister or Little Sister'.

These baby elephant decorated baby shower cookies were for a neutral shower. The mother preferred not to know the gender. They chose a teal and salmon color palette.

Baby elephant cookies sleeping on a moon. Also, a little elephant decorated with royal icing using wet-on-wet dots.

Yippee-ki-yi-yay, here is a set all doodied up fer ya 🤠. For the pocket, I  used a rectangle and cut off the bottom at angles on both sides. Enjoy my video!

This theme of decorated baby shower cookies is for a boy, "A little cowboy is on the way". Shapes are a blue jean pocket, long diagonals with initials, cowboy boots, and cowboy hat.

Sometimes, as cookiers, we get pretty lucky to get orders with only two colors, excluding white. That doesn't mean they can't be sweetly decorated. 

Are you sure you know how to bake sugar cookies? That may be a silly question to you. But don't shrug it off. I may inspire you with shortcuts and other tips. Find out How to Bake Sugar Cookies.

Decorated baby shower cookies for boys or girls. These cookies are decorated with gray, lavender, and white. Soft and sweet!

Another set for either baby girl cookies or baby boy cookies. Sage color has been quite popular for some time now.

This is a simple set of baby shower cookies using the color sage green with white. Sage green leaves were airbrushed on.

➡️'baby' cutter by Mike's Cookie Cutters on Etsy

Here are some cookie-cutter flips for decorated baby shower cookies you might find helpful...

Decorated baby shower cookies: decorating techniques

Join me as we explore some techniques to decorate sugar cookies with royal icing. There are many methods to use; these are just a few. See plenty more techniques here.

*️⃣food color markers

Food color markers are invaluable and much needed in a cookier's world. They allow for very fine and intricate detail work, like in these 'stitches'. The bootie cookie was one of my first cutters. That was in the days of only metal cutters! Years later, it's still one of my go-to baby cookie cutters.

This image is of a baby boy's bootie cookie with blue royal icing and decorative piping. A food color marker is used for the heel and toe stitches.

*️⃣Molds

Using silicone molds for decorated baby shower cookies is the cats (or 'deer' ha!)

I have so many molds that I do not care to even count them! They come in handy for little shapes. The deer in this photo was fondant. I also use poured chocolate. 

Blue and white baby boy shower cookies with a deer theme. For the deer, I used a silicone mold with fondant.

*️⃣Wet-on-wet technique

Whenever you can do this cookie decorating technique, grab the chance! It saves so much time. 

The only caution is to make sure your royal icing consistency is the same for any colors you will be adding. If one is thicker, the thinner icing will pull the thicker color into it and cause color bleed.

Speaking of color bleed, take a short trip over to see my Royal Icing Tips page, to prevent many icing problems for cookies: Royal Icing Tips.

The round sloth faces were the wet-on-wet (not the full body ones). The black facial features were added after the icing had crusted.

Cute little sloths using the wet-on-wet technique. After the icing crusted, I piped on the facial features. These were created using a PICO projector.

*️⃣Edible images

Edible images are the ultimate in personalization (if you do not have an Eddie--if only, right?) for decorated baby shower cookies. Whether it be the child's photo, a sonogram image, or the pregnant couple. Printing directly on cookies, like an Eddie, would be best, but OUTCH! Those suckers are so expensive. 

Edible image copiers are at least reachable. See my page on those if you have questions. Edible Cookie Images

Edible image of a baby on a cookie with royal icing. I used a balloon arch cutter.

➡️Balloon arch cookie cutter by Sugar Rex on Etsy

*️⃣Airbrushing cookies

An airbrush is one of the four most important and valuable pieces of equipment. Truly, it catapults your work to an instant professional. You have 2 options: cordless or a regular one. See the best options on my page here: Airbrushing Cookies

This baby shower cookie set was simply white with gold airbrushing on royal icing. I added cream, blue, and dark pink flourishes.

Decorated baby shower cookies: popular cutters your customers will want!

This first cookie is one that is simply the greatest! It is so easy to decorate. You can add extras to it, like a blanket, and royal icing transfers, maybe a teddy bear or something. Decorate it for either a baby boy or girl (or neutral).

Don't you just love it?

This image shows a decorated baby crib cookie for a girl with white and pink royal icing. I piped a little blanket over the side.

➡️Baby crib cookie by Cookie Cutter Lady on Etsy 

Here is a great bonus tip. Wondering how I get the beautiful soft pink you see on the crib or 'Baby in Bloom'? I use the Wilton maroon food color gel, but just a tiny dab! That's it. I'm an avid Americolor person, but the maroon gives a purple hue that makes the pink pop!

This 'Baby in bloom' cutter is becoming more popular. This is another cookie-cutter that I am glad I have. The customer really likes it.

This is a cookie that says 'Baby in bloom'. This is for a baby girl shower with pink and white royal icing with florals.

➡️Baby in bloom cookie cutter by Cookie Cutter Lady on Etsy

Decorated baby shower cookies: original royal icing templates 

Nita, owner, author, and decorator of WeCookiers.com


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If you want to learn more about royal icing transfers, here is my page introducing you to the wonderful world of Royal Icing Transfers.

We all love royal icing transfer sheets. Why?

-they save us real time in the end

-allows more creativity

-very inexpensive

-gets rid of the color bleed problem

Here is a 6 page set I created to make those baby clothes hanging on a clothesline cookies. It'll save you so much time making this design of decorated baby shower cookies.

Use all the royal icing transfers you make with this set on your cookies (or other confections), or pick and choose.

Purchasing the 6-page set will save you $2.50. However, if you would like to purchase just the ones you have your eye on, I've made that available too, tap this link.

Image linking to a 6-page pdf download of baby royal icing templates. 6 clothing designs.

Okay, that sums it all up.

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