Black Cat Sugar Cookies With Sanding Sugar

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How To Decorate Sugar Cookies

Black cats are often shown in media around Halloween time (I think these cookies can be made all year round!). Sometimes simple cookies are the cutest! For this project, all you need is one curled cat cookie cutter and black sanding sugar.

Theres a few tools that I always recommend for decorating cookies with royal icing. They make decorating easier and precise. If you want to decorate your cookies with clean edges, use piping bags! Scoop the icing into a piping bag and use scissors to cut across the tip. Always cut a tiny hole first, and then if you need it bigger, you can cut more. I also recommend the scribe tool. You can use it to fix ares on the cookies that are small, pop air bubbled, and manipulate the icing to get sharp corners. In this tutorial, I use the scribe tool to shape the green eyes into the pointed cat eye shape. You can also use a toothpick, but I don’t like to waste which is why I love the scribe tool!

You also need black sanding sugar! *Optional funnel to get sprinkles back into the jar! You can also use rolled up parchment paper.

Royal Icing Prep

This guide uses my easy royal icing recipe to ice 24 cat sugar cookies. It whips up to a pip-able consistency which is great for dipping cookies and also piping simple details like the cats eyes! I use AmeriColor Super Black & Electric Green to dye the icing.

Americolor food gel is very vibrant so you only need to start with small drops. This is great because it lasts a long time and because it’s food gel, it doesn’t add extra liquid that could change the frostings texture.

Color Your Icing

Separate the 1/4 cup of icing into a bowl and mix with 1 drop of electric green. A rubber spatula is the best way to mix icing and easy to wash off. You can mix in the black dye right into the mixing bowl! Scoop the icings into piping bags and cut the tip with scissors to make a small hole.

COLOR	GEL COLOR
Black	3-5 drops super black
Green (1/4 cup)	1 drops electric green

Watch the Video: Black Cat Sugar Cookies

How to Decorate Black Cat Sugar Cookies

#1 Outline the cookies with icing and then fill in.

#2 Fill a shallow bowl with black sanding sugar. Dip the first cookie that you decorated in to the sprinkles. Continue to dip in the order of driest to wettest cookies to avoid the weight of the sprinkles to cause the icing to run off.

Pipe two green dots with the green icing. Use a scribe tool or toothpick to gently shape it into a cat eye by gently pulling the corners outward.

Get a small drop of black icing on the tip of the scribe tool or toothpick. Place the drop in the center of the green eye and pull up. Repeat for the other eye.

How Long do Iced Cookies Need to Dry?

It can take between 12-24 hours as it depends on how humid your kitchen is. It can also depend on how runny your icing was when piping. To be sure the cookies are fully dry when packaging or serving, I recommend letting the cookies dry overnight.

Storing Iced Sugar Cookies

• Sugar cookies can be stored in an air tight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
• You can freeze plain or decorated cookies for 2 months. Let the cookies thaw before serving. Cookie dough can be frozen up to 2 months.
• Don’t stack cookies on top of each other as they are still delicate even when dried. If you have to, lay parchment paper in-between each layer.

How to Gift These Cookies

There are three cute and easy ways to present these cookies!

1. To keep in freshness, add one fully dried cookie into a cellophane bag and tie with ribbon. For cookies that are 4 inches or smaller, I purchase the 5×7 inch bags.
2. To really take the gift to the next level, place the cookies in a box with crinkle paper. After trying a few different boxes, I think these gift boxes are the best and they hold four cookies!

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