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Bathing Suit Cookies for Christmas In July! - SweetAmbs

Bathing Suit Cookies for Christmas In July!

A set of cookies decorated to look like bathing suits and sun hats with holy leaves and berries, candy cane stripes, and gift bows. The collar of the bathing suit cookies and the edge of the sun hat cookies are trimmed with sparkling sugar. The cookies are on a platter covered with sparkling sugar and under the platter are soft fairy lights.

These bathing suit cookies are part of a Christmas In July Instagram collaboration hosted by Cake Ladies Tampa Bay. Take a look at the hashtag #ChristmasInJulyCollab to see all of the edible Christmas creations!

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I recently purchased this bathing suit cookie cutter on Amazon. It’s a copper cutter so it’s more expensive than most of my cookie cutters but I’ve already used it for 3 projects since I bought it! I’m sure I will get a lot of use out of this cutter in the years to come.

A close up of cookies decorated to look like bathing suits and sun hats with holy leaves and berries, candy cane stripes, and gift bows. The collar of the bathing suit cookies and the edge of the sun hat cookies are trimmed with sparkling sugar. The cookies are on a platter covered with sparkling sugar. There are soft fairy lights in the background.

I used the wet-on-wet technique to pipe the design on these cookies. You do have to move pretty fast with the wet-on-wet technique, which is why I use extra meringue powder in my royal icing recipe to ensure that I have as much time as possible to work with the icing before it starts to crust over.

Here’s what you’ll need to make these bathing suit cookies and sun hats:

These supplies are available in my Amazon Store unless otherwise noted.

  • Chilled sheet of cookie dough (my recipe is available to my Patreon Subscribers or get it in my tutorial shop
  • Bathing suit cookie cutter
  • Hat template (available to my Patreon Subscribers)
  • Knife to cut the hat cookies
  • Red flood consistency royal icing (I used a combination of Chefmaster Tulip Red with a touch of Forest Green)
  • Green flood consistency royal icing (I used Chefmaster Forest Green)
  • White stiff consistency royal icing
  • 12” decorating bags
  • Couplers
  • Decorating tips 1, 2, and 3
  • Bag ties
  • Scribe tool
  • Acrylic board or baking sheet wrapped with wax or parchment paper
  • Bow template (available to my Patreon Subscribers)
  • Sparkling sugar

Read my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about royal icing consistencies.

A close up of cookies decorated to look like bathing suits and sun hats with holy leaves and berries, candy cane stripes, and gift bows. The collar of the bathing suit cookies and the edge of the sun hat cookies are trimmed with sparkling sugar. The cookies are on a platter covered with sparkling sugar. There are soft fairy lights in the background.
A banner image with 8 blocks of images. The first block is two logos. One logo says Global Belly and the other says SweetAmbs. The next image is a stack of baked cookies on a decorative stand. The next image is a set of round cookies decorated with a gold brush embroidered design. The next image is a set of cookies shaped like disposable coffee cups and donuts. The coffee cups are decorated with a heart on the sleeve. The donuts are decorated with sprinkles. The next image is an overhead shot of the round cookies decorated with a gold brush embroidered design. The next image is a different angle of the cookies shaped like disposable coffee cups and donuts. The coffee cups are decorated with a heart on the sleeve. The donuts are decorated with sprinkles. The next image is an in-process shot of a cookie being flooded with icing. The last image is a batch of freshly baked cookies on a baking sheet. The text across the top of the banner reads Cookie Kits Are Here!

Amber Spiegel, founder of SweetAmbs, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and the author of Cookie Art: Sweet Designs for Special Occasions. Amber has over 12 years of cookie decorating experience and has traveled the world teaching others how to decorate beautiful cookies on their own.

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