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Sugar Cookie Decorating Ideas for Inspiration and Skill
Sugar cookie decorating ideas do not necessarily come at will. That’s why we cookie artists need inspiration, sometimes a lot of it!
This page gives you 8+ sugar cookie decorating ideas that you can build on…
If it's not a link, the page will be coming. Thank you for your patience!
1. Cookie Cutter Flips
2. Airbrushing Cookies, lots of cookie decorating videos!
3. Cute Sugar Cookies Decorated
4. Simple Decorated Sugar Cookies
5. Sugar Cookie Designs
6. Unique Sugar Cookies
7. Royal Icing Transfer Sheets, what they are and how to use them
8. Transfer image to cookies
After your delightful works of art are made ( see How to Make Professional Cookies), you’ll need to know how to Price for Decorated Sugar Cookies.
If you have not grabbed my free 2-page download on this page, Royal Icing Tips, you'll want to. It's invaluable!
Let’s discuss the 8+ sugar cookie decorating ideas
1. Cookie-Cutter Flips. Fun. Creative. Satisfying. Need I say more? We all love browsing the endless ways we can reuse cookie cutters for more than their intended shape.
Coffee mug or briefcase flipped to be a wedding camera
Popcorn cutter turned into a wedding veilBy joining the WeCookier’s Express monthly periodical, you will get first-see inspiration of the many ways I flip those cutters (and oh so much more). Perhaps I’m on a mission to be the Queen Cookie Cutter Flip, lol. I do find it addictive.
Flipping cutters gives great ideas. Couple that with morphing and you’re really on a roll!
2. Cookie decorating videos. Enjoyable. Relaxing. Zzzzz. As a cookier, we can’t get enough of these videos. Right?
Cookie video tutorials give us the motivation to keep getting better as we gather ideas.
As you peruse these videos I made for you, I hope they inspire you to new sugar cookie decorating ideas, as well as how to make professional cookies. Link to WeCookier's YouTube Channel, remember to like and subscribe. It continues helping me to help you...for free. Thanks so much!
3. Who doesn’t love cute sugar cookies decorated? Sweet. Charming. Precious.
I find baby shower cookies to be some of my favorites to decorate. Especially when my customer says, ‘This is the theme, run with it'. Aren’t those the greatest customers?
Cuties baby shower themeThis page is sure to inspire the genius in you.
The great thing about these cookies is that you don’t have to have certain shapes. The right Sugar Cookie Icing Recipe (or a great Sugar Cookie Glaze Recipe), of course, comes first. Basic shapes are usually the best, so you’re not constricted.
With this list of Cookie Decorating Techniques, the ideas are never-ending.
4. I've fallen in love with cookie platters. My customers love them = win-win! They are growing ever more popular. I have bought a lot of them from Semi-Sweet Designs, like this tray:
baby bunny and chick Easter or baby shower theme5. Simple Decorated Sugar Cookies. Simple does not have to mean humdrum. Often, the less complex the cookies, the sweeter or more beautiful they are, like this baby unicorn cookie.
Please read about the Royal Icing Transfer Sheets with a great hack for removing them with less breakage: Royal Icing Transfer Sheets
A unicorn icing transfer from the WeCookier's collection
Sugar cookie with food markersI’m so used to decorating sugar cookies that when I get so involved, it’s hard to stop. I often forget that simple is sweet.
6. Sugar Cookie Designs. Even trying to think of the simplest designs can cause our minds to freeze. Are Google images and Pinterest your best friends, too?
*Visit Royal Icing Flooding. This page gives you many tips and hacks to make sure your cookies turn out perfect with no color bleed.
Sometimes, just having a design pattern on a cookie is all it needs.
Food color markers will come in perfect for patterns of design. That link will take you to a page where I compare 7 brands of edible markers to see which ones work best.
At a loss for designs? Have you checked out sites like Shutterstock and Pixabay? Pixabay images are always free. You don't even have to credit the artist, though it is always great to do so if you can!
Please be careful not to copy the images. I’m suggesting sites like this to only gain inspiration from. There is, of course, the option to purchase with a license.
7. Unique Sugar Cookies. Interesting. Compelling.
I love unique sugar cookie decorating ideas. I could spend hours looking through unique cookies. Some cookie artists’ talent is beyond words.
These 2 crosses are made with plastic suncatchers bought at Walmart. I pressed the image into the cutout shapes before being baked. If you have not visited How to Bake Sugar Cookies, I strongly encourage it. You may be surprised by all the hacks and time-savers! I then decorated with the colors the customer chose for a baptism.
This is a photo of a display at Walmart that I took. It shows all their suncatchers. They are .88 each at the time of writing this page.
More sugar cookie decorating ideas
Trying to think of unique cookies to decorate?
Always remember, Edible Cookie Images can get you out of a mind freeze, too.
One tip is to be ever mindful of things in life around you. For instance, as I changed my physical calendar on the first of the month, I saw a gorgeous photo of a flower I want to emulate. Fingers crossed.
If something positive or funny hits the news, immediately try to capture the theme with a cookie to post on your social media.
If you are at a store in the sewing or clothing department, look at the print. Love it? Can you put something like it on a sugar cookie?
How about a very popular article of clothing, like boots or a blouse? If you love it, snap a picture of it and put it in your swipe file.
By the way, if you don’t know what a swipe file is, it’s a fast go-to running list of ideas. Everyone needs a swipe file! I keep a file on my desktop labeled 'Swipe File'.
You can take any ordinary cookies and put them on a stick, too. I have a tutorial page for that: Cookies on a Stick
Have you thought about these sugar cookie decorating ideas?
1. Skip right over to Picsvg. This amazing and super-easy online tool is free! You can't go wrong with anything. It's all done for you. I love this tool.
Once you upload a photo or image, it populates the SVG for you. You can tweak it a little here and there if you want. Then just download, and you're ready.
What do you do with the resulting SVG?
If you have a cutting machine like a Cricut, you can easily make a stencil.
You can also use it with a projector to trace it on a sugar cookie.
It can really 'wow' a customer by getting something so personalized, like an engaged couple on wedding cookies or a birthday or anniversary of someone. Pretty slick, huh?
2. Yes, the set of cookie cutters can be quite expensive for just 2 or 3. But if you just have a candy corn/pie shape cutter or even a stick cutter, you can easily make a scene with one cutter!
Mini cookie sticks with mints insideThe nice thing about cookie-cutter platters, though, is you only need to purchase 1 or 2 cutters, just one if you have a circle or another shape for the center cookie. This is the one I did for the 4th of July: (the image is a link to that page)
Sugar cookie decorating ideas...the projector
A sugar cookie business would not be complete without a cookie projector. That is how I did most of the cookies from this fireman cookie set:
If you need a cookie projector, I wrote these pages to help you...
Here are some pages I have written after much experience and research:
-PICO + Projector Review (a professional, unbiased review)
As this site will be a never-ending site, meaning I'll always be adding new pages, I try to add to different lists, ideas, royal icing tips, etc., on already published pages as I think of them. So keep checking back!
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