Snowflake Cookies

These snowflake gingerbread cookies are so pretty and simple to make. This is a very good design for beginning cookie decorators.

I like the look of the dark brown gingerbread around the fresh white icing. I also love a cookie design that requires only two icing colors. If you wanted to get really fancy I suppose you could sprinkle sanding sugar over the piping detail but really there's no need.

Here's how to make them:

Bake snowflake shaped cookies.

Outline and flood the cookie with white royal icing. Use a skewer to move the icing and fill in all the gaps.

After filling the cookie give it a gentle shake to help the icing settle.

Let the icing dry before moving on to the next step.

With piping consistency blue icing and a #1 pastry tip, pipe a straight line across the snowflake.

Pipe another line.

And another.

Pipe three "v" shapes at the end of each line. Make the "v's" larger as you get closer to the center.

Finally, pipe a ring of dots around the center. That's it. Simple and sweet.