Easy Christmas Cookie Decorating Ideas
Fun Ideas for Decorating Christmas Cookies and Other Holiday Baking
Nov 30, 2007
You don’t have to be a gourmet baker to have dazzling Christmas decorated cookies. Sometimes all it takes is a little embellishment that anyone can do. Try these easy decorating ideas to add pizzazz to your cookies, ideas that you can also use for cakes, pies and squares.
Chocolate Dipped Cookies
A drizzle of white or dark chocolate or even caramel would liven any shortbread cookie. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave and then just use the tip of a spoon to drizzle it over the cookies. For the caramel you can use a sundae topping product, which usually comes in a squeeze bottle, making it really simple.
Most types of cookies can be dipped in melted white or dark chocolate. Just dip a corner of the cookie, lay it on wax paper and then put the cookies in the fridge to harden. You could also add a drop of green food coloring and peppermint extract to the melted white chocolate.
A single white chocolate covered coffee or espresso bean would add a kick to the top of a brownie.
Cookie Sprinkles, Colored Sugar and More
Small pieces of crushed Oreo cookies will nicely top off a chocolate brownie cookie. Push them down into the warm cookie so they will stick.
A sprinkle or light dusting of cinnamon, nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice will liven up any Christmas sugar cookie.
Sugar comes in all different colors and it makes a beautiful decoration whether you sprinkle it over cookies or roll rum balls in it. Make your own colors by adding a drop of food coloring to regular sugar.
Shaved or flaked coconut looks like snow. This would go nicely on a dark or white cookie, maybe on top of a layer of melted chocolate.
Put icing sugar in a shaker can and lightly dust a dark cookie. You could even lay down a stencil of a star first and then add the icing sugar so it takes the shape.
Silver dragees or balls and colored pearls will look like ornaments on Christmas tree shaped cookies. You could also add them to the tips on a star cookie.
Candy Cookies
A unwrapped Hershey’s kiss stuck in the center of a peanut butter cookie adds some fun. Place the Hershey’s kiss after they have baked and are slightly warm, not hot.
Scatter a few crushed candy cane pieces on top of a chocolate cookie or square or mix it into your fudge or candy bark.
Replace the chocolate chips in your cookies with red and green M&Ms.
A chunk off of a Toblerone bar is a great topping for a toffee-flavored cookie or square.
Fruit and Nuts
Since raspberries are a festive red color, add a few to the top of cheesecake squares, lightly rolled in icing sugar.
Orange shavings are pretty to add to any vanilla or cranberry cookie. Again, just run the peel of the orange across your cheese grater.
Pecan halves or almonds slices look pretty inserted on top of any fruit flavored cookie.
Candied fruit – such as cherries, lemons, cranberries and apricots – is very festive on any holiday baking.
Place a small cranberry in the center of a three-leaf sprig of mint and it looks like a sprig of holly berries. Perfect on any iced square.
All of these easy tips will make beautiful Christmas decorated cookies and enliven any holiday baking such as squares, fudge and brownies.
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