Decorated Gingerbread Cookies

Be sure to mix the royal icing at low speed and no higher.

Decorated gingerbread cookies. Once you ve decorated the cookies with soft or royal icing push a few pieces of bright candy onto them. I know that list doesn t look like much but that s the fun of it. Deselect all 4 cups unbleached all purpose flour 1 tablespoon ground ginger 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt 1 2 teaspoon grated nutmeg 1 2 teaspoon ground cloves 1.

You can arrange the candies in a pattern or use them to decorate gingerbread people. Keep your gingerbread cookies cozy by adding cute pj decorations. I love simple don t you.

Sometimes outlining and flooding and bagging and be ribboning and boxing and delivering takes more hours than i have time. Find easy gingerbread man recipes and ideas at wilton. Having made gingerbread men before i thought i would bake some gingerbread cut out cookies as i haven t baked cookies this season.

Watch more how to make christmas cookies videos. Whether you have a schedule of christmas plays and parties all of your christmas. Celebrate the holiday season by decorating a batch of gingerbread man.

As the icing hardens it will hold the candies in place. These decorated gingerbread cookies satisfied my urge for a ginger something and the creative side of me. Stick a variety of colorful candies on the iced cookies.

Using a few simple tools and ingredients makes some really unique christmas cookies without a lot of mess time or effort on your part. See more ideas about gingerbread gingerbread cookies cookies. Whipping too much air into the icing will cause it to get crunchy instead of silky smooth.