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Cookie Baking Tips

Chinet Crystal plate full of cookies

Make your next batch the best batch!

Sugar cookies can be tough to bake and even tougher to decorate. Laura Wilfon from @wineatbedtime shares with us five cookie-baking tips you can follow to ensure your next batch of sugar cookies has sharp lines, no color bleeding and consistent designing.   

Thank you, Laura, for sharing your expertise!

5 Cookie-Baking Tips:  

  1. Make your cookie dough, roll it out and freeze it before cutting with a cookie cutter for sharper lines. 

    Undecorated cookies on a baking sheet

  2. Let cookies cool completely before decorating to prevent butter seeping through.  
  3. Make your royal icing firm, adding a bit of white food coloring to the entire batch to prevent color bleeding.   
  4. Use a spray bottle of water to thin out icing slowly for best results. 


    Kitchen mixer mixing cookie icing


  5. A small projector is the fastest and easiest way to get consistent and striking character cookies decorated.