Decorate Cookies With Chocolate

Outline the cookie shape then flood it with the warm melty chocolate.

Decorate cookies with chocolate. Just like you would for making royal icing cookies. At her store baked ideas in new york city she churns out some of the most inventive and impossibly beautiful cookies y. Pipe over them like they don t exist and your cookies will look nice and full like a real chocolate chip cookie.

Just pipe and flood a large area with white or light pastel colored icing let dry completely then go crazy with the color markers. Metal tips also come in a variety of shapes the open star shape is useful in making flowers while others make designs like basket weave or leaves. Melt chocolate melts in whatever color you choose and put in a piping bag.

Other ways to decorate royal icing cookies. Cream butter shortening and sugar together. This will give you good control for decorating the cookie though it s not strictly necessary.

Don t worry about the dots. Try any of these other techniques. Cookies can be finished with a variety of items such as candy corn gumdrops nuts raisins candied fruit miniature chocolate chips sprinkles and colored sugars.

Now for the flour btw i sifted mine. For cookie decorating you ll likely use round tips that range in size from 1 the smallest opening which creates the thinnest lines to 5 a larger opening creating thicker lines. Next add eggs and vanilla.

Of course make sure all ingredients are at room temperature. After you pipe the tan icing use a turkey lacer or scribe tool to smooth it out. Try dipping one half of each cookie in dark chocolate and the other half in white.