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Game Day Cookies | Super Bowl or Any Given Sunday
Try DELICIOUS FOOTBALL Cookies for your Super Bowl Party or Game Day!
Get ready for the most delicious no-spread Game Day sugar cookies you’ve ever tasted and the most delightful cookie decorations imaginable!
Join us as we share our secret family sugar cookie recipe and our homemade buttercream frosting recipe. You can do everything from scratch or you can use store bought frosting and cake decorating tools. Either way, your friends and family won’t believe how amazing these cookies look!
We’ll show how to best decorate Game Day sugar cookies. We’ve got really cool cookies decorated like a 50 yard line, cookies decorated like footballs and Touchdown cookies.
This easy cookie baking and decorating tutorial will have you making beautiful sugar cookies in no time!
I have provided some links to products that will be helpful to make, decorate and display these fun and festive cookies:
Multi-functional Acrylic Cake Stand
Recommended Food coloring for Frosting
Reusable Piping Bag and Tip Set
GAME DAY COOKIES DECORATING INSTRUCTIONS
NOTE: Instructions will cater to decorating products I’m using. If using homemade frosting, use a piping kit with tips listed (plus No 3 Tip for writing). Keep portion of frosting plain and dye portions green and brown, then use the recipe card below for detailed instructions.
INGREDIENTS & EQUIPMENT
(Products I’m using in the product links above)
Icing Spatula. No. 47 Tip with White Decorating Frosting Tube. No 233 Tip with Green Decorating Frosting Tube. White Writing Gel. Use store bought chocolate, green and white frostings. Use the large round and the football cookie cutters to bake the cookies from the recipe above. NOTE: These cookies should not be considered stackable.
50 YARD LINE COOKIES
Use green frosting to frost the cookies. Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. Screw on Tip No 233 with Green Decorating Icing. Add “grass” thoroughly covering the cookie. Allow to cure 10-15 minutes. Screw on tip No 47 to White Decorating Icing, using the flat side facing up (teeth side facing down). Make a line down the center of the cookie. Use white writing gel to apply two evenly spaced short lines at the top and bottom of the cookie to the right and left of the center line and in the center, draw a “5” to the left of the center line and a “0” to the right.
FOOTBALL COOKIES
Use either the pre-made chocolate frosting to frost the cookies or the homemade buttercream (that you’ve dyed brown). The recipe below Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. Use the white writing gel to draw on the stitching: near the center top of the cookie, draw a curved line with the ends turning down. Put in 5 stiches vertically that correspond to the cookies “bumps”. Then add curved lines on the left and right of the cookie that look like this: left ) right (
TOUCHDOWN COOKIES
Use either the pre-made chocolate frosting to frost the cookies or the homemade buttercream (that you’ve dyed brown). Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. In the center of the cookie, use white writing gel to write “Touch” and then “Down!” directly below it.
How to Decorate Super Bowl | Game Day Cookies
Equipment
- No. 47 Tip for white line down middle in grass
- No 233 Tip for grass
- Piping Bags
- No 3 tip optional in place of white writing gel
- icing spatula
Ingredients
- Buttercream or Chocolate Frosting brown
- Buttercream Frosting white
- Buttercream Frosting green
- Edible writing gel white
- AmeriColor Gel Food Coloring Kit Recommended food coloring for homemade frosting
Instructions
- No. 47 Tip with White Frosting. No 233 Tip with Green Frosting. White Writing Gel. Optional: No 3 tip with White Frosting in place of white writing gel. Use store bought chocolate, green and white frostings. Use the large round and the football cookie cutters to bake the cookies from the recipe above. NOTE: These cookies should not be considered stackable.
- 50 YARD LINE COOKIES: Use green frosting to frost the cookies. Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. Use Tip No 233 with Green Frosting. Add "grass" thoroughly covering the cookie. Allow to cure 10-15 minutes. Use tip No 47 with White Frosting, using the flat side facing up (teeth side facing down). Make a line down the center of the cookie. Use white writing gel (or No 3 tip with white frosting) to apply two evenly spaced short lines at the top and bottom of the cookie to the right and left of the center line and in the center, draw a "5" to the left of the center line and a "0" to the right.
- FOOTBALL COOKIES: Use either the pre-made chocolate frosting to frost the cookies or the homemade buttercream (that you've dyed brown). Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. Use the white writing gel to draw on the stitching: near the center top of the cookie, draw a curved line with the ends turning down. Put in 5 stiches vertically that correspond to the cookies "bumps". Then add curved lines on the left and right of the cookie that look like this: left ) right (
- TOUCHDOWN COOKIES: Use either the pre-made chocolate frosting to frost the cookies or the homemade buttercream (that you've dyed brown). Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. In the center of the cookie, use white writing gel to write "Touch" and then "Down!" directly below it.
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Hi, I’m Allison, the founder of Simple Fantastic Kitchen. I live in the mountains in a tiny house with a tiny kitchen where I make