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Supply List: Rolled
sugar cookie ingredients (recipe link
provided below), Royal Icing Mix, Gel Food Color, Treatology Flavoring System,
Santa cutter with mustache, Gingerbread man cutter with mini heart, Snowflake cutter
with mini snowflake, Gold & Silver Color Mist, Piping Bags, Food Writers,
Sprinkles and nonpareils, shimmer dust, decorating brushes, Icing Bag Ties, and
of course your baking pan, parchment paper and cookie spatula!
There are so many other fun products don't limit yourself just to these! Gold Glitter Gel would be perfect to let the kids decorate with.
All Wilton Products available at Michaels Craft Stores.
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The tradition of
cookies and milk for Santa is one that we look forward to every year with our
kids! The excitement and joy that comes with the anticipation of Santa's
arrival is contagious and leaving only the best cookies and milk for Santa is a
must!
I hope this project
brings many smiles, lots of laughter, and quality time spent with family and
friends! Don’t forget that there are no set rules on these designs. Be creative
and have fun! I hope to give you a good guideline to recreate, or to get you started
on a creative design of your own!
Step 1
Bake your cookies!
The Wilton Roll-Out Cookie Recipe is one of the best. If you do not have a
favorite cookie recipe I highly recommend this one.
Use your Snowflake
Cutter with mini snowflake, your Santa cutter with mustache, and your
Gingerbread man with the cute mini heart.
The Santa cutter is
the shape used for Santa, Mrs. Clause, and the list to Santa, so don't forget
to make more of those! And don't forget Santa's mustache!
This recipe makes
approximately 2-2 1/2 dozen with these cutters. The Santa cutter is bigger than
an average cutter.
Step 2
Prepare your Royal
Icing according to Directions. Add a flavor of your choice from the Treatology
Flavoring System. These flavors are AMAZING! Salted Caramel, Sweet Meyer Lemon,
and Juicy Peach are just a few of the yummy flavors!
*Royal Icing Tip-You
will use two different consistencies of icing. Piping icing is a little thicker
than the consistency of toothpaste. You will use this for outlining,
decorations, and applying nonpareils to your cookies. Second is flooding
consistency icing. This icing is used to fill in your cookies after you have
outlined them. Thin the icing by adding a half teaspoon of water at a time to
achieve a thinner consistency. Don’t forget it is always easier to add more
water than it is to fix icing that is too runny!
Cut the tips of your
bags. For your piping icing, you want your opening to be a little bigger than a
coffee stirrer. For your flooding icing your opening needs to be about the size
of a straw.
Step 3
Mix your colors
using Wilton Gel. For this set you will need Red, White, Skin tone, Yellow,
Grey. Brown, and Black.
(If you want to add
polka dots to your gingerbread man mix a second shade of brown flooding!)
You will need piping
and flooding consistencies of each color except for black, and you only need
piping consistency for black.
Use the color mixing
guide included in the Wilton Gel pack. It gives you specific instructions on
how to achieve the exact color you are wanting! This is SO helpful and
something I will always keep close.
Lets Get Started!
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We are going to
start off fun with a List for Santa that the kids can write on!
Using a Santa shaped
cookie, outline the cookie with your white piping icing. Fill with your white
flooding icing and set aside. Move on to work on the rest of the set while
these dry. I suggest letting these dry as long as possible, overnight is best
since you will be writing on them.
After the cookies
are dry, use your Blue Food Writer to make horizontal lines resembling paper. I
always use a notecard to keep my lines straight. Spacing between lines is up to
you!
After your blue
lines are done, make a red horizontal line on the left side of your cookie.
Give the marker a few minutes to dry and make that list!! Don’t forget the
longer the cookie has dried, the easier for the kiddos to write on!
Gingerbread Men & Mini Hearts
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Using your brown
piping icing, outline your gingerbread man with your brown piping icing, fill
with your brown flooding. If you want to add polka dots now is the time! Take
that lighter shade of brown filling and simply dot the icing onto the already
flooded wet cookie. Polka dots can be tricky so I would leave this to someone
who has cookie decorating experience!
Let your base dry
for 15-20 minutes and add the white squiggly lines for the arms and legs, the
red cheeks, and the black smile and eyes.
Use your white
piping icing to let the kids add fun details to the cookie using your
Sprinkles. I added a pearl necklace, a bow tie made from Christmas trees, Pearl
Buttons, Star Buttons, Etc.
The mini hearts
would be a fun cookie to let the kids take charge. Pipe and fill with any
color, and cover in sprinkles! What kid wouldn't love that?!
There are so many fun sprinkle designs just have fun!
Silver & Gold Metallic Snowflakes
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Outline your
snowflake using your yellow piping icing, and flood with yellow. After the
surface of the cookie is dry (5-10 minutes), spray with Gold Spray Mist. Give
that first layer a minute or two to dry and add a second layer for a more
vibrant gold! Add a snowflake design in
white piping icing to the top after it is dry to the touch. Use the same
process for the silver mini snowflakes using grey icing and Silver Wilton Mist. I also used shimmer dust and a large decorating brush to give these some texture and sparkle. Just dip your brush in the shimmer and dust over cookie.
The metallic mist is one of my very favorite cookie products made! The metallic colors
are beautiful and so simple!
Last but not
least……..
Santa and Mrs.
Clause…..And his Mustache!
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You will use the
same Santa shaped cookie for both of these. For Mrs. Clause, flip your cookie
upside down!
Use your Food
Writers to outline the areas you will be icing white; the band and ball of
Santa's hat, Santa's beard & mustache, Mrs. Clause's hair, the collar of
her dress, and her purse. This will make the outline process much easier!
Follow your outline
and pipe white around all of the areas you have outlined. Go back and flood
with white. If you want to add sprinkles do it now!
After the white
icing has dried for 5-10 minutes, pipe the small open spaces on the sides of
both faces with your skin tone color, and fill with flooding icing. You can go
ahead and do the same with red, piping Santa's hat, and Mrs.Clause's dress.
Let the whole cookie dry for about 20 minutes. I use this waiting time to clean
up……or eat sprinkles and scraps.
After the cookies
have surface dried; add the nose, lips, glasses, details on the hair and beard,
Santa's hat, and Mrs. Clause's dress. Use piping consistency for all of these.
Add the eyes and
rosy cheeks last. For the rosy cheeks I put a TINY bit of red gel on a
decorating brush, diluted it with water, and made small circular motions. This
is also best to do when your cookie is completely dry!
Let your cookies dry
while you clean up your mess!
After they are dry, place them on a plate for
Santa with a cold glass of milk and you are sure to have the best plate of
Santa cookies in town!
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