Technicolor cookies

Cookies artfully decorated with royal icing are a holiday classic, but their fine details and beautiful colors can take hours to achieve. Not with these gorgeous cookies. Once the icing is made and stained, it takes only a few minutes to decorate. The icing is simply poured over the cookies, a technique inspired by the one used to pour swirly colors of mirror glaze over smooth cakes. (For a quicker alternative to royal icing, simply dip or drizzle the cookies with melted chocolate.) No two…

These fun and ultra delicious cookies are so fun to make and taste even better! They come together very quickly and just need to be given several hours to set completely before eating and sharing. Feel free to eat these without the icing (and related setting time)- they’re incredible on their own!

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I shared these recipes as part of my 12 Days of Christmas Cookies series last year on Instagram and TikTok but realized I never shared the recipes here! So here is the full list from last year all in one post so you can easily choose which cookie (or cookies) are best for your holiday cookie tin. Spoiler alert: the matcha wreaths and the matcha checkerboard cookies won the popularity contest last year.