Good Sport Diego
Sports-themed decorated cookies shaped like baseballs, basketballs, soccer balls, and footballs—ideal for kids' parties.
Ingredients
cookie dough (cut with medium round and football cutters)
to taste
colored icing (made per recipe)
to taste
food coloring (brown, black, terracotta, orange, red)
to taste
Go, Diego, Go! sugar craft decorations (for decoration)
to taste
cookie cutter set (for cutting)
medium round and football cutters
colored icing mixture (for outlining and filling)
to taste
Wilton tips (for decoration)
2, 3
Instructions
1
Prepare cookies ahead of time
Prepare and roll out the dough. Use the medium round and football cutters from the set to cut out cookies; bake and cool.
2
Outline and fill
Outline the cookies with full-consistency colored icing and tip #2. Fill with thin colored icing (page 130); let dry.
3
Decorate cookies
Decorate with full-consistency colored icing and tip #3. Pipe lines onto the baseball and basketball. Outline and fill the football with stripes (smooth with a finger dipped in cornstarch). Mark the soccer ball design; outline and fill (smooth large areas with a finger).
4
Finish
Use dots of icing to attach the sugar craft decorations to the cookies.