Hanging Out for the Holidays
Make Christmas stocking, gingerbread man, and candy cane cookies, then attach the small cookies to the back of the Christmas stockings.
Ingredients
Roll-Out Cookies (p. 87)
Royal Icing (p. 87)
Color Flow Icing (p. 87)
18 Pc. Holiday Cutter Set
1
12 Pc. Holiday Mini Cutter Set
1
Christmas Red, Red-Red, Kelly Green, Brown (food coloring, mixed for custom shades)
White Sparkling Sugar
Red and Dark Green Colored Sugars
White Nonpareils
Instructions
1
Make Cookies
Prepare and roll out dough. For each treat, cut 1 stocking using cutter from 18 Pc. Set and 1 candy cane and 1 gingerbread boy using cutters from 12 Pc. Set. For striped stockings, add colored sugars in alternating colors before baking. Bake and cool all cookies.
2
Decorate Green Stocking
For green stocking, ice smooth with light shade of royal icing. Add tip 2 lattice outlines.
3
Decorate Red Stocking
For red stocking, outline using tip 3 and full-strength color flow icing; flow in with thinned color flow. Let dry overnight, then print tip 2 name. Finish stockings with your choice of fur trims in royal icing: fluffy icing swirls, icing covered with white nonpareils or icing sprinkled with sparkling sugar.
4
Decorate Gingerbread Boys and Candy Canes
For gingerbread boys, ice smooth with brown icing; add tip 1 dot, outline and pipe-in details. For candy canes, outline and pipe in stripes in alternating colors.
5
Assembly
Attach mini cookies behind stockings using full-strength color flow icing.
