How To Decorate Pumpkin Cookies (In Three Easy Steps)

These Pumpkin Cookies can be decorated in three easy steps using a piping technique that adds diminision and interest.

And now is the perfect time to learn how to make them since they are ideal for fast approaching Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving celebrations.

I made my pumpkins mini-sized and used them to top a batch of double-decker Fall cookies but they are definitely cute just the way they are too.

My recent batch of double-decker cookies.

Here's how to decorate them in three easy steps:

Step 1:

Outline and fill the two outside sections of the pumpkins with flood consistency royal icing. Let this dry for at least 15 minutes before moving on to the next step.

Step 2:

Outline and fill in the middle sections with the same icing. You might need to use a skewer or scribe tool to ease the icing all the way to the inside edges of the already filled sections.

Step 3:

Finally add a green stem using a paint brush and piping consistency royal icing. I have a small stiff square tip brush from Wilton that I recommend using. By painting on the stem you eliminate having to use a pastry bag and it gives that rough textured look of a real pumpkin stem.

Turkey Sugar Cookies

Here are my finished turkey cookies. I used the brushed embroidery technique to add the feather details. It took me a while to figure out a design that would add dimension to a pretty nondescript cookie cutter but it was worth the time and effort. I really like how these turkeys turned out.

Here's how to decorate them:

Flood the cookies with white royal icing and let it dry completely before moving onto the next step.

With black royal icing that is piping consistency, outline the tips of the feathers on the back of the turkey.

Use a damp brush to pull in the black icing. Be sure to wipe your brush off every now and then. Add grey feathers and use the brush to pull that icing in as well. Finally pipe white lines on top of the back feathers.

Keep working until all of your cookies are finished up to this point.

Add three rows of lower front feathers in black and gray and rows of top feathers in gray.

Add feet and a beak with orange royal icing that is piping consistency.

Outline the turkey's head and wattle with red royal icing and use a brush to pull it inward and fill in the outline. Be sure to leave an open spot for the eye. To give the eye a raised look, pipe a white dot and then pipe the black eye on top.

Turkey Cookies Are Coming

I'm getting set to decorate turkey cookies for Thanksgiving.

The undecorated cookies look like pale blobs but hopefully with some creative decorating they'll come to life. I wish I could have found a cookie cutter with more detail but I'm up for the challenge.

I've been sketching and trying to figure out a design.

 

Stay tuned.....