Family Portrait Cookies

by JOANN |

Item # 362366920P14
Intermediate Varies
SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
  • Favorite Sugar Cookie & Royal Icing Recipe
  • Circle Cookie Cutter
  • Christmas Cookie Cutters
  • Food Coloring Marker
  • Wilton® Disposable Icing Bags
  • Toothpicks
  • Baking Sheet
  • Rolling Pin
  • Wilton Icing Tip #3

DIRECTIONS:
  1. Mix cookie dough and use food coloring to make various skin tones. Roll out sugar cookie dough.
  2. Use circle cookie cutters to make cookies traditional faces.
  3. Various Christmas cookies can be turned into faces:
    • Elf, winter hat and Christmas present cookie cutters can make a face with facial hair.
    • Christmas bear cookie cutters will make a face with pigtails or a cute family pet.
    • Bells turned upside down will create a wild hairstyle.
    • Round ornaments can create a baby face with a little lock of hair.
  4. Putting cookies on cookie sheet and then placing it in the fridge for a few minutes before baking will help keep the shape of the sugar cookies.
  5. Preheat oven and bake cookies following cookie recipe.
  6. Make royal icing with a consistency of toothpaste. Color with neutral and bright colors. Cut the tip of three disposable icing bags and place a #3 tip into each bag.
  7. Once cooled, decorate faces with different hairstyles, glasses and so on.
  8. Use a food-safe pen to draw on faces.

JOANN HACKS:
  • Trace cookie cutters onto paper and color in to figure out the design and details of your cookies before working on the finished cookies.

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