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Deck the halls and the dinner table with a heap of hand-iced holiday cookies this Christmas!
Today, we’re showing you how to ice your own classic Christmas cookie creations, using our Cinnamon Christmas Cookie recipe. Forget figgy pudding, these jolly Holiday cookies are perfect for festive parties or as an charming hand-made christmas gift. Step 1: Bake your Cinnamon Christmas Cookies First start by baking your own cookie base, we used our Cinnamon Christmas Cookie Recipe, which includes a handy guide for rolling your dough and a downloadable cookie cutter guide! Step 2: Preparing the icing Once your Christmas cookies have come out of the oven and cooled down, now the fun can really begin.
You will need to make a batch of line icing to create the detail and flood icing to create the main colors.
For our Christmas Holiday Cookies, we used line icing in the colors white, cream, black, red and green. For our flood icing we made a white, cream, red and black. Step 3: How to decorate Christmas Cookies ![]()
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* In a back and forth motion, pipe the snowman's scarf with red line icing. Leave to dry for 5 mins. Once dry, use white line icing to pipe small lines of detail on the scarf and green line icing to pipe tassels at the end of the scarf. Leave to full dry. ![]()
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* Once your flood base is set dry, use your red line icing to outline the segments and outer edge of the candy canes. ![]()
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* Place your jumper cookies onto a baking tray and into an oven set to the lowest temperature (120°F/50°C/gas mark ¼) for 40 minutes, or until the icing has set hard.
* Once set, use your cream line icing to pipe the detail on the jumper. Pipe vertical lines on the neck, waist and cuffs. Then pipe vertical lines down the jumper. In-between the vertical lines pipe wavy lines and dots. ![]()
* Finish off your jumper cookies by piping a green line around the neck and then with your red line icing pipe a zigzag directly underneath. Finally, pipe small dots in each space of the zigzag. We’d love to see your own handmade cookie creations so don’t forget to share with us on Instagram @biscuiteersltd with the hashtag #BiscuitMagic!
How to decorate Christmas cookies
19 December 2023
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5 Minutes
Today, we’re showing you how to ice your own classic Christmas cookie creations, using our Cinnamon Christmas Cookie recipe. Forget figgy pudding, these jolly Holiday cookies are perfect for festive parties or as an charming hand-made christmas gift.
You will need to make a batch of line icing to create the detail and flood icing to create the main colors.
For our Christmas Holiday Cookies, we used line icing in the colors white, cream, black, red and green. For our flood icing we made a white, cream, red and black.
Line icing top tip
Your line icing will need to be the consistency of toothpaste
Flood icing top tip
Your flood icing needs to be a slightly looser constancy, more like a thick custard
* Use your white line icing to outline the body of the snowman, and a black line icing to outline the snowman's hat. Leave to dry for 5 minutes.
* Use white flood icing to flood the snowman's body and black flood icing to flood the snowman's hat.
* Place your snowman cookie onto a baking tray and into an oven set to the lowest temperature (120°F/50°C/gas mark ¼) for 40 minutes, or until the icing has set hard.
* Once your flood base is set dry, use your black line icing to pipe a curved row of dots for the mouth and two dots for the eyes.
* Use orange line icing to pipe the snowman's nose and green icing to pipe a band on the snowman's hat.
* Pipe the outline and diagonal stripes of your candy cane cookies with red line icing. Leave to dry for 5 minutes.
*Use white flood icing to flood alternative sections of the cookies. Then use red flood icing to flood the remaining sections.
* Place your candy cane cookies onto a baking tray and into an oven set to the lowest temperature (120°F/50°C/gas mark ¼) for 40 minutes, or until the icing has set hard.
* Outline the shape of your jumper with cream line icing. Leave to dry for 5 minutes.
* Use cream flood icing to flood the jumper cookies.
* Once set, use your cream line icing to pipe the detail on the jumper. Pipe vertical lines on the neck, waist and cuffs. Then pipe vertical lines down the jumper. In-between the vertical lines pipe wavy lines and dots.
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