DIY Cookies Part 2: Decorating

Heey,

This is part 2 of a DIY Cookies post, part one is one Amber's blog. On Amber's blog we made the dough and on this blog (as you probably saw from the title), we are decorating and cutting out the shapes.

View part 1 HERE.

These are the cookie cutters we are using today. I was given these for Christmas from my parents and they are from Lakeland. You don't have to use these cutter you can use more traditional ones like stars or gingerbread men but I wanted to use these new ones :)

Flour the surface, rolling pin and your hands. Then, using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to the thickness of half a cm.

Now when the dough is the desired thickness, plan where you are putting your cutter. Try and make the most of your dough because you don't want to waste any!

Once you've greased the backing tray with a small amount of butter, place the cut out shapes on the tray and put in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown at 180 degrees C.

Be careful when you take them out of the oven because they will be hot. I would suggest leaving for 30 seconds before moving the cookies onto a cooling rack.

Now for the fun part, decorating your cookies, we used a range of products from rice paper snowflakes to royal icing. If you wanted to make proper glasses then I would suggest icing the sides to the main frame using thick icing. We left some un-decorated because some family members don't like sweet icing. 

Thank you for reading, please subscribe and comment if you like this DIY, I might do more in the future if you would like me too :)

Hugs and kisses
Liv xoxo