SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Favorite Sugar Cookie Cut-Out Recipe
- Wilton® Baking Products:
- Royal Icing (or homemade royal icing)
- Gel Food Colors (gold, silver, bronze, etc.)
- Flour
- Edible Glitter Spray
- Rolling Pin
- Cookie Sheets
- Cookie Cutter: Circle
- Cookie Cutter: Mini Star (optional)
- Wide Straw
- Silicone Baking Mats (or parchment paper)
- Icing Decorating Bottles, Bags & Tips (or parchment cones)
- Scribe Tool (or toothpick)
- Ribbon
- Treat Bags
DIRECTIONS:
- Mix the sugar cookie ingredients together, following the recipe.
- Slightly coat the rolling surface with flour.
- Divide the dough into chunks & roll out until the dough is 1/4" thick.
- Use a circle cookie cutter to cut out dough & place onto a silicone mat or parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.
- Use a wide straw to cut a hole near the top of the circle (this is where the ribbon will be inserted later)
- If desired, use a mini star cutter & cut a few out.
- Place rolled-out dough onto cookie sheets & freeze for 5 minutes before cutting out shapes. This will help to prevent dough from becoming misshapen when moving & baking.
- Follow baking instructions according to your favorite recipe & cool completely before decorating.
- Use the recipe on Wilton's® meringue powder to mix up royal icing or use premade icing.
- Scoop out some royal icing & gradually thin with water to get your piping & flood consistencies.
- Tint with food coloring to desired colors such as silver, gold & bronze. For the medal cookies, piping consistency & flood consistency is needed for each medal color.
- Place these into either bags or bottles.
- If using decorating tips, #1 or #2 is best for piping & #3 or #4 is best for flooding.
- Decorate the base layer of the circle cookies & mini stars by outlining with piping consistency icing then flooding. If needed, use a scribe tool or toothpick to spread icing & pop air bubbles.
- While the base layer is still wet, spray the edible glitter onto each cookie.
- Let the base layer dry for a couple hours before adding additional details.
- Once the base layer has crusted over, use the piping icing of each medal color to add any details.
- Details could include words such as WINNER, SUPER & 2023, as well as dots, stars & stripes.
For Mini Star Cookies:
- After the base layer is mostly dry, use piping consistency to adhere the mini star cookies to the circle medal cookies. Allow cookies to dry completely, at least 8-10 hours, before packaging them up.
- When cookies are completely dry, cut the ribbon to desired length for the medal & thread through the hole in the cookie.
- Tie loose ends together.
- Cover the cookie in a treat bag & use a smaller ribbon to tie the bag shut.