Okay, first things first… I’m from Pittsburgh and I love my Steelers. I couldn’t be more excited about their Super Bowl win – it’s a wonderful time to be from the Steel City!
Alright, my gloating over, I had a large cookie order for a Super Bowl party that consisted of 4 dozen of my gourmet chocolate chip cookies, and 3 dozen decorated football sugar cookies. While I’ve spent a lot of time practicing and perfecting the art of cake decoration, this was my first time doing fully decorated sugar cookies, and I have to say – I think they turned out pretty well!
I used a basic royal icing recipe to decorate these cookies and the method I used was to outline the footballs with a #2 tip and then flood the inside with thinned icing. Once dry, I outlined and flooded the white stripes on the sides and then used a #2 tip to add the laces at the top. I think I might be addicted to this and am looking forward to finding excuses to make other cookies to decorate!
If you haven’t decorated sugar cookies before, please check out the “Decorating with Royal Icing” tutorial that I have since posted. It is a step-by-step guide (with pictures) on how to decorate sugar cookies with royal icing.
Tags: Decorated Cookies, Sugar Cookies, Super Bowl, Super Bowl
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What a great festive cookie for the Superbowl!!
The cookies look GREAT! I gave homemade fondant a try for the first time and decorated my cupcakes with the Steelers logo (HUGE Steelers fan)… but they were all consumed before I had a chance to take a picture!
Yay Steelers! Those last 2 minutes of the fourth quarter were completely nerve-wracking.
KATE — Oh, tell me about it! Those last two and a half minutes certainly took at least a few years off of my life!
I’ve been a cookie decorator for a decade and have trained tons of new decorators. I can definitely say, GREAT job! These look really wonderful. Bravo.
Those are so cute… and I love the Pampered Chef bakers mat….it is one of my favorites!!
I love these! Everyone who get to eat them was lucky indeed!
OH MY GOSH Chelle! They look FABULOUS!!!!!!! Great job! Really!!!
These turned out unbelievably cute!! Great job, I love them
Awesome football cookies!
Your cookies are amazing! Excellent job.
Yahoo for the Steelers!! The cookies are amazing!! Nice job for your team!
Those look great (and yummy too!). I’m a Cowboys fan, so I was upset we weren’t there. But, the game was very exciting anyway!!
Too cute! I love these.
Your cookies look so so good!
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I did a post (http://myfirstyearasawallace.blogspot.com/2009/02/in-honor-of-fact-that-its-valentines.html)on blogs that I *love* and you’re on that list! Thanks for having such a great blog! Your food is beautiful!
They look so cute, and really professional! Great job! I really want to try to decorate cookies sometime soon, so I’ll have to check back to the blogs you recommended.
Good job and keep it up! When I surf in the internet looking for Sugar Cookies, I found your website. Thanks for your tutorial, I can sit for a day to surf and learn anything to do with baking and cooking. Thanks again for your kindness and sharing, hope to learn gingerbread house – step by step. Have a nice day and take care!
Thank you so much for the encouraging tutorial on Royal Icing. I made Super Bowl cookies this evening as my mother babysat and am really impressed with how they turned out. I have always wanted to try “flooding” and thanks to your great tips I was able to. Have a great game