Small Biscuits Decorated with Royal Icing

With this recipe, it's easy to make Small cookies decorated with royal icing ! I offer you the recipe for the cookies and the icing: you can then keep it white or color it as you wish.

If you are looking for a fun activity to do alone or with your family, then decorating cookies should be right up your street... And what's more, after the effort, there's the comfort of eating your little creations!

Where does the tradition of decorated cookies come from?

This tradition comes straight from Anglo-Saxon countries (USA, England). You have also certainly seen these Small cookies decorated with royal icing in Christmas TV movies! Nothing better to get into the holiday spirit.

But don't worry, the rest of the year we also prepare them for all types of occasions: birthdays, weddings, births, seasons... By playing with the different shapes of biscuits and colors of icing, everything is really possible.

themes are very varied. As long as you have cookie cutters, nothing will stop you! In fact, I offer you a selection of my favorite cookie cutters at the bottom of this article.

What ingredients are needed for this small decorated cookie recipe?

Flour / Yeast : choose a regular flour, both wheat and spelt work. Baking powder is necessary for the biscuits to rise.

Butter : you will need unsalted butter at room temperature, i.e. soft.

Sucre : this is classic powdered sugar.

Egg : it allows to give texture to the cookies.

vanilla : it offers us its sweet scent, so tasty!

Egg white : it allows the icing to set and gives it texture.

Sucre glace : it gives a white base to the icing and also allows it to be sweetened.

Lemon juice : it is used to make the icing more or less liquid depending on the quantity used.

Food coloring : I use natural food coloring. At present, almost all colors are available on the market. They can be easily mixed if necessary.

How to make small cookies decorated with royal icing?

Plan first a little time in front of you. You will need to make the cookies first, let them cool before preparing the royal icing and then decorating them.

What is important in this kind of decorated cookies is also and above all their taste! Nothing extravagant in the ingredients you will see, just a hint of vanilla because I love this flavor in cookies.

Royal icing is made up of egg white, lemon juice and icing sugar. You can leave it neutral = white. You can also add natural food coloring (prefer these to chemical dyes, which are more harmful). I recommend some dyes at the bottom of this article.

The advantage of this decorated cookie recipe is that you can let your imagination run wild, the decoration possibilities (colors, shapes, writing, etc.) are endless!

More Cookie Recipes to Try

If you want to make decorated chocolate cookies, whether on the Christmas theme or on another theme, I recommend the recipe for Chocolate Christmas cookies with icing. You may also like to make these Crinkles, chocolate crackle cakes.

If you make these decorated cookies, don't hesitate to tag @liliebakery on Instagram so I can see your creations!

Small Biscuits Decorated with Royal Icing

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Adorable shortbread cookies decorated with colored icing ...

Amount : 30 biscuits

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Prepare in advance 1 time h

Cook time 8 minutes min

Total 1 time h 8 minutes min

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Ingredients 

Biscuits

• 375 g all-purpose flour
• 5 g baking powder
• 230 g unsalted butter at room temperature
• 170 g granulated sugar
• 1 oeuf
• 1 cc natural vanilla extract

Royal icing

• 1 egg white
• 2 cc lemon juice
• 280 g icing sugar
• Natural food colors

Prepare in advance 

Biscuits

• Mix the flour and baking powder. Reserve.
• Mix the soft butter at room temperature and the powdered sugar with a mixer until a creamy texture is obtained. Add the whole egg and liquid vanilla.
• Gradually incorporate the flour / baking powder mixture into the dough. Don't hesitate to put your hands up! Roll the dough into a ball and place it in a freezer bag, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 180 ° traditional heat.
• Flour the work surface and roll out the dough just out of the refrigerator (it holds up better if it is cold). It should be about 0,5cm thick.
• Use cookie cutters to cut the dough into different shapes (I recommend cookie cutters at the bottom of this article). Place the small shapes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
• Refrigerate 3 minutes so that the cookies retain their shape.
• Bake for 8 minutes (the shortbread should be barely golden). Remove the baking sheet, let stand 1 minute and cool the shortbread on a wire rack. They are ready to be decorated!

Royal icing

• Mix the egg white and lemon juice. Gradually add the icing sugar while mixing. Add a few drops of water if the mixture is too compact.
• Here you have to obtain a medium icing consistency that will be used to outline the outlines of the cookies.
• Little tip: when you draw a line in the bowl of icing, wait 15 seconds for the line to disappear: if it disappears too quickly, it is too liquid (add icing sugar), if it disappears too slowly it is too compact (add a little water).
• Divide the frosting into 2 or 3 containers depending on the number of colors you want.
• Then add a little dye to each container (see the bottom of my article for my recommendations). Mix well. Fill the piping bags fitted with a n ° 2 or n ° 3 "writing" tip (links at the bottom of my article)
• Then trace the outlines on the cookies. Wait 1 or 2 hours for everything to dry.
• Dilute the glazes a little and fill the inside of the traced outlines. Leave to dry for about 1 hour. Finish with the small surface decorations (peas, lines, etc.).

Notes

I didn't have the patience to wait the necessary time for the last decors, so they blended in with my infill, the effect is different, but I also like!

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