How to Decorate 4th of July Cookies
Here's how to decorate the perfect 4th of July Cookies
Equipment
- No. 47 Tip red stripes and blue for flag
Ingredients
- Buttercream Frosting red
- Buttercream Frosting blue
- Buttercream Frosting white
- AmeriColor Gel Food Coloring Kit Recommended food coloring for homemade frosting
- Sparkling / Sanding Sugar red
- Sparkling / Sanding Sugar blue
- Cane Sugar white
- Patriotic Sprinkes
Instructions
- Can use homemade buttercream frosting recipe (or storebought) and dye a portion red and a portion blue. The buttercream will work for white. Use the large and medium round cookie cutter and the star cookie cutter to bake the cookies from this no spread sugar cookie recipe: https://simplefantastickitchen.com/secret-family-recipe-best-no-spread-sugar-cookies/ NOTE: These cookies should not be considered stackable.
- AMERICAN FLAG COOKIES: Use white frosting to frost the largest round cookie. Clean up the edges with the edge of the icing spatula. Use blue frosting in piping bag with No 47 basket weave tip. There is a flat side and a side with teeth. Use the flat side facing up. In the upper left quadrant, create the blue portion of the flag by drawing in a right angle and then filling it in. Use the icing spatula to smooth out the blue section, cleaning up the edges as you go. Then clean the icing spatula and the No 47 tip completely. You might require a wire cleaning brush to get into the nooks and crannie. Dry it a little. When it's clean and dry, use the No 47 tip with red frosting in a piping bag with the flat side facing up. Then draw the stripes on the flag, following my placement from the video. Apply even pressure to the tube as you go. Then open your patriotic sprinkles and separate out roughly 11 small white stars and carefully apply them to the blue area of the flag, spaced out as I have shown in the video. Press them carefully down a little bit when you've finished. Allow to cure 10-15 minutes.
- RED STARS COOKIES & RED ROUND COOKIES: Use either the pre-made red frosting to frost the cookies or the homemade buttercream (that you've dyed red). Be sure to spread the buttercream as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. On a plate, sprinkle red sugar all over the cookies, then gently turn the cookie on its side and tap the plate, getting most of the excess sugar off.
- WHITE STARS COOKIES & WHITE ROUND COOKIES: Use either the pre-made white frosting to frost the cookies or the homemade buttercream. Be sure to spread the buttercream as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. On a plate, sprinkle white cane sugar all over the cookies, then gently turn the cookie on its side and tap the plate, getting most of the excess sugar off.
- BLUE STARS COOKIES & BLUE ROUND COOKIES: Use either the pre-made blue frosting to frost the cookies or the homemade buttercream (that you've dyed blue). Be sure to spread the buttercream as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. On a plate, sprinkle blue sugar all over the cookies, then gently turn the cookie on its side and tap the plate, getting most of the excess sugar off.
- WHITE PATRIOTIC ROUND COOKIES: Use either the pre-made white frosting to frost the cookies or the homemade buttercream. Be sure to spread the buttercream as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. Take a handful of the patriotic sprinkles and add them to the top of the cookie. Gently push the sprinkles down so they meld into the frosting.
Notes
NOTE: Though the frosting will harden a bit, these will not be stackable cookies. Best to keep them in one layer at all times.
Easily use my no-spread sugar cookie recipe for the cookies and my buttercream frosting recipe for the frosting with the gel food dye I recommend (or buy the frosting store bought if the colors are in season). Both of my recipes are in the Holiday "4th of July" section! Enjoy!