Christmas Cookie Decorating

By Stephanie Gallagher, About.com Guide

Christmas cookie decorating is a fun holiday activity to do with the kids. First gather your ingredients to decorate your Christmas cookies. You will need:

• Prepared Christmas cookie dough
• Prepared sugar cookie icing
• A toothpick, chopstick or clean (never used) paint brush for spreading the icing
• Rolling pin
• Parchment paper and plastic wrap (optional, but helpful)
• Flour for rolling cookies
• Cookie cutters
• Colored sugar, sprinkles, gel icing, food coloring

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• Christmas Cookie Decorating Step 1 - Gather Your Ingredients
• Christmas Cookie Decorating Step 2 - Roll Out the Dough
• Christmas Cookie Decorating Step 3 - Cut Out the Cookies
• Christmas Cookie Decorating Step 4 - Bake the Cookies
• Christmas Cookie Decorating Step 5 - Prepare the Sugar Cookie Icing
• Christmas Cookie Decorating Step 6 - Pipe Sugar Cookie Icing on Cookies
• Christmas Cookie Decorating Step 7 - Add More Icing to Flood the Cookies
• Christmas Cookie Decorating Step 8 - Add Decorations

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