How to decorate royal icing cookies

That colorful coating might look pretty on your Christmas cookies, but royal icing can be, well, a royal pain. Here are the most common frosting faux pas—and how to avoid them.

This is the best royal icing for sugar cookies! It is easy to make, has amazing flavor and dries softer than other royal icings. I'm always getting compliments whenever I use this recipe to decorate my sugar cookies!

EASY COOKIE DECORATING -- Everything a beginner needs to learn how to decorate cookies. Recipes, piping instructions, flooding, and MORE.

This easy sugar cookie icing recipe is make with simple pantry staple ingredients and is easy enough for beginners. Great for spreading and piping sugar cookie decorating ! #sugarcookieicing #easyrecipe

Learn the best way to make black royal icing that is really black and still tastes good (with or without black food coloring)

If you are making homemade sugar cookies and you are going to decorate them with homemade royal icing then you are going to love everything you need to know about How to Decorate Cookies with Royal Icing. Once you know the basics, you will be able to decorate all of your homemade sugar cookies so they look like they came from a bakery!

The BEST, soft, cut out, sugar cookies that taste good and hold their shape! Use your favorite cookie cutters and have fun decorating with buttercream frosting.

Royal Icing can turn regular sugar cookies into little works of art! Smooth and shiny, royal icing and flood icing is actually simple to make and decorate with too. Royal icing is a mixture of powdered sugar, meringue powder and water. Once you’ve outlined your cookies with your royal icing outline, you’ll fill in your designs with “flood” icing. Flood icing is basically just a watered-down royal icing. This smooth royal icing recipe is perfect for decorating cut-out cookies.

Make the perfect Royal Icing every time with this amazing Royal Icing with Meringue Powder recipe! Perfect for cookies, cakes, and all of your baking needs!

An easy dough that yields a nice, soft cookie. These cookies are a little more fragile, so handle with care.