Stripe And Chevron Cookies

These stripe and chevron cookies look impressive but are so simple to make. The only real trick is to be sure that you have all your icing colors mixed and ready to go before you start decorating since these are made using the "wet on wet technique," meaning you add the base coat of icing and then immediately add other colors of icing on top of it.

This technique is great because you can get so many different looks depending on what colors you choose.

I obviously decided to go bright. Here's how I made them:

Mix your royal icing colors and thin them so that they are flood consistency. Put the icings into pastry bags fitted with #2 tips.

Flood a cookie and immediately add some stripes.

Add some more stripes.

And even more stripes. This cookie looks good as is, or you can create a chevron effect.

To create a chevron, draw through the stripes using a skewer or scribe tool, being sure to wipe the tool clean after each swipe.

Then draw through the stripes going in the opposite direction. That's all there is to it! Let the cookies dry completely before packaging and serving.

Three Ways To Decorate A Cookie

I wanted to make a quick batch of decorated sugar cookies and nothing is faster than these three wet on wet icing techniques.

To begin you need three complimentary royal icing colors that are flood consistency.

The best way to test your icing to see if it is flood consistency is to draw a line through the center of it with a table knife. The icing should settle back into place in 10 seconds. If your icing is too thick add water just a drop at a time until you get it right.

For all three of the ways to decorate you need to do this:

Bake a batch of sugar cookies.

After the cookies have baked and cooled, decorate just three at a time. These decorating techniques are wet on wet meaning wet icing is piped onto a wet base coat. So don't try to decorate too many at a time.

Outline the cookies.

Flood the cookies and use a skewer to move the icing.

Once the base coat is on the cookies you are ready to choose one of the following techniques.

Technique 1: Dots

Drop a few dots of icing onto each cookie.

Drop some more dots in another color and you are done.

Technique 2: Chevron

Draw two lines leaving space in the middle for a third.

Add your third line in another color.

Use a skewer to draw a line across the icing four times alternating the direction.

Technique 3: Marbling

Draw two circles around the cookie in different colors.

Use a skewer to drag the icing in circles around the edge of the cookie and through the two colored circles.

Maybe you want to try all three techniques. It's easy and the results are satisfying.