Cookie Making Part Two The Icing

 What makes a Christmas cookie cute? How it's artfully decoarated. However it does take skill and patience, along with a solid icing.

That's what I thought I had when I was all set to decorate these, those sugar cookies that I baked from a Wilton recipe.

I was more than excited to use my Wilton's squeeze bottle icings

These have to be heated in the microwave every fifteen seconds to get the icing more pourable

. It worked with the white and with the green somewhat. The red was another story. It was very runny and dripped off the cookies.

                                                           These are the early ones

To be honest it was hard to work with the icings. They could be drippy or like paste. I used a small plastic knife to flood in the Santa and snowmen hats with the thin red icing.

As for the Chrsitmas lights I just filled those in with a squiggle of any of the three colors and white icing at the bottom to simulate the screw in. 

It took a while and several microwave heatings to decoarate all thirty  cookies. I was very lucky to have my three tier cookie rack from Wilton to put them. The cookies needed air so they icing could dry properly.

The icing set pretty nicely and adds a lemony flavor to the cookies. They look cute and are fun to eat. I just need more practice for my next batch.

What is a Christmas cookie without icing? Just a cookie. It needs a zing like Wilton's icing to give it some zing and oomph!