Holiday Handiwork
Mitten-shaped cookies decorated with snowmen, stripes, or tree patterns.
Ingredients
Roll-Out Cookies (p. 87)
Color Flow Icing (p. 87)
3 Pc. Winter Cutter Set
1
Sky Blue, Royal Blue, Leaf Green, Kelly Green, Christmas Red, Red-Red, Black, Orange (colors to be mixed)
White Nonpareils
White Sparkling Sugar
cornstarch
Instructions
1
Make Cookies
Prepare and roll out dough. Cut mittens using cutter from set; flip cutter to cut opposite hand. Bake and cool.
2
Decorate Cuffs
For all designs, outline cuff area with tip 2 and full-strength icing. Flow in with thinned icing. After setting for 3 to 5 minutes sprinkle some with nonpareils or Sparkling Sugar or let area dry and pipe tip 1 swirls in full-strength icing.
3
Decorate Mitten Body
For color areas, outline with tip 2 and flow in as above. On striped and tree mittens, immediately flow in designs with lighter icing.
4
Decorate Snowman
For snowman, after icing has dried overnight, use full-strength icing to pipe tip 8 ball head and body (pat smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch). Add tip 1 hat, face and scarf details.
