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Cookie Decorating Tutorials

Check out these cookie decorating tutorials for every occasion! There are Christmas cookies, birthday cookies, baby shower cookies, and so many more!

Baby Shower Cookies

Cookies decorated to look like baby rompers with a cherry pattern. The cookies have icing ruffles on the sleeves and in the middle, as well as lace detail along the color. The cookies are sitting on a plate over a lace doily.
Cherry Romper Cookies
Baby Bootie Cookies
Baby Shower Cookies
Watercolor Baby Shower Cookies
Baby Bassinet Cookies
Royal Baby Shower Cookies

Birthday Cookies

3rd Birthday Cookies with Edible Sequins
Bubble Gum Machine Cookies
Birthday Cake Cookies
A set of plaque shaped cookies decorated with light blue royal icing and pink roses in the corners. Happy birthday is written on the cookies in royal icing. There is a piping bag filled with dark blue icing with a decorating tip. The cookies are on a piece of parchment paper on a wooden background.
Birthday Plaque Cookies
Mini Cake Cookies

Christmas, Hanukkah, and Winter Cookies

cookies decorated to look like a gingerbread village with frosted glass windows, a red door, and gingerbread Christmas trees
Christmas Cookie Ornaments - Round cookies decorated with white, teal, red, and pink designs inspired by a 1960s Christmas. The cookies are hanging on a Christmas tree in front of a light pink background.
Ornaments for Beginners
Plaid Gingerbread House
Star of David shaped cookies decorated with blue icing and gold filigree details. The cookies are next to a dish of gold luster dust and a paint brush. The background is pearl white embossed with filigree.
Filigree Hanukkah Cookies
Cozy Christmas Scene
Red and White Christmas Cookies
Gingerbread Beach House
Frozen Snowflake Cookies
Christmas Cottage
3 snowman cookies on a white plate on a teal background. The snowman cookies are decorated with teal and red scarves and hats. They have carrot noses and cartoonish eyes and a mouth.
Snowman Cookies
Snow Globe Cookies
A plate of pastel Christmas tree cookies decorated with a gold filigree design. The cookies are on a teal glass cake platter. There are Christmas decorations in the background including sparkly greenery, a cupcake ornament, and an ice cream cone ornament.
Pastel Christmas Cookies
Ornament Cookie Kit
A gingerbread house decorated with royal icing. The house features a pastel blue and purple filigree design on the front and sides. The roof is decorated with a scalloped pattern and covered in sparkling sugar. The windows and doors of the house are sprinkled with sparkling sugar. The house is sitting on a white base and there is a pink bokeh background with twinkling lights.
Pastel Gingerbread House
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.
Christmas Vacation
Christmas Plaque Cookies
Holiday Baking Scene Cookie
Christmas Cookie Box
Christmas Eve Scene Cookie
Barn Door Cookies
Ornament Cookies
Christmas Lights Cookies
Red and White Ornaments
a set of cookies decorated with an under the sea theme with a seahorse, starfish, and jellyfish. The cookies are shades of blue with white sparkling sugar and royal icing holly leaves and berries. There are two piping bags filled with icing and a paint palette with blue food coloring around the cookies.
Under The Sea Christmas Cookies
Eyelet lace gingerbread snowflake cookies decorated in royal icing. The cookies are on a light blue background with a snowflake print.
Eyelet Lace Snowflake Cookies
Wreath Cookies
Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies
Beautiful stained glass cookies - snowflake cookies with a blue hard candy center that resembles stained glass. The cookies are mostly bare with a little bit of delicate royal icing decorations piped on them. The cookies are on a white rectangular platter on a white background. There is a sprig of evergreen in the foreground.
Stained Glass Snowflake Cookies
Hanukkah Cookies
A pink, red, white, and green gingerbread house with a scalloped roof decorated with royal icing ornaments. The house is sitting on a white fluffy surface in front of a pink background. There are ornaments that look like cupcakes, donuts, and ice cream hanging in the background
Pink Gingerbread House
Santa Claus Cookie
Pink Winter Wonderland Cookies
A set of cookies decorated in black and gold royal icing for New Year's Eve. There is a plaque shaped cookie in the middle with two gold Champagne glasses on a gold ombre background on black icing being held by gold ombre and black painted fingernails. The cookie is surrounded by black star cookies with gold accents. The cookies are on a black background sprinkled with gold sparkling sugar.
New Year’s Eve Cookies
Champagne Glass Cookies

Día de Muertos Cookies

Sugar Skull Cookies for Dia de Muertos
Dia de Muertos Sugar Skull Cookies
Sugar Skull Cookies

Easter, Spring, and Saint Patrick’s Day Cookies

Bunny Centerpiece Cookie
3D Easter Egg Cookies
Vintage Easter Cookies
3 Easy Cookies for Easter
Pastel Plaid Easter Cookies
watercolor easter egg cookies - Egg shaped cookies decorated with royal icing and watercolor in pastel colors. The cookies are on a white plate over a watercolor paper background.
Watercolor Easter Cookies
easter bunny ears cookies decorated with brightly colored plaid royal icing and royal icing flowers. The cookies are on a light blue background.
Plaid Bunny Ears Cookies
A decorated mason jar cookie with a pink base and a blue lid. The mason jar cookie has a band of royal icing eyelet lace across the middle and the lid is covered with royal icing lace. There are several small cookies on top of the jar to look like a bouquet. The smaller cookies are decorated to look like flowers with royal icing stitches and a royal icing button in the center of each flower. The cookies are on a porcelain eyelet lace platter on a piece of green and white floral cloth.
Spring Mason Jar Cookies
Saint patrick's day cookies - a set of cookies decorated to look like a bouquet of shamrocks in a mason jar. The cookies are decorated with royal icing in different shades of green. There are polka dots, lace, stitches, and gold buttons on the cookies to make them look as if they are quilted. The cookies are on a rectangular platter with eyelets and the platter is on a square of white paper with a lace edge over a green background.
Saint Patrick’s Day Mason Jar Cookies
Rainbow Four Leaf Clover Cookies
Easter egg cookies decorated with pastel marbled royal icing and white filigree
Marbled Easter Egg Cookies
cookies for saint Patrick's day decorated with green, black, and gold royal icing
Plaid Cookies for St.Patrick’s Day
Baby Animal Cookies
Easter Bunny Cookie with Gold Leaf
Speckled Easter Cookies
Shamrock Cookies
3 cookies decorated to look like Shamrock Shakes with homemade royal icing sprinkles and gold candy straws
Shamrock Shake Cookies
EasterCostume Cookies
a gingerbread house decorated with royal icing stones, vines, mushrooms, and flower petals. There is a gold banner with the word premium on the top of the photo
Fairy Garden Gingerbread House

Fall Cookies

Barn Cookie with Sunflowers
fall mason jar cookie on a platter. The cookie is decorated with a fall sunset scene and filled with royal icing chrysanthemums and roses.
Fall Sunset Mason Jar Cookies
Brush Embroidered Fall Cookies
A set of cookies decorated to look like fall dresses. The cookies are decorated in black and white stripes with pink royal icing roses and golden yellow royal icing chrysanthemums. They are on a transparent light green cake plate with a lace pattern over a golden yellow background.
Fall Dress Cookies
Buffalo Plaid Cookies
Marbled Fall Leaves Cookies
Floral Bee Cookies
Fall cookies decorated to look like sliced branches. The cookie in the center says fall in cursive. There are two cookies decorated with navy blue oak leaves. The cookies are decorated with orange and blue royal icing roses and green royal icing leaves.
Fall Branch Slice Cookies
pumpkin shaped cookies decorated with light blue royal icing white white polka dots. The pumpkin cookies have gold stems and are also decorated with royal icing roses and chrysanthemums. The cookies are surrounded by more royal icing flowers and are on a wooden background.
Polka Dot Pumpkin Cookies
Plaid and Denim Cookies
Fall cookies decorated with navy blue icing and a light blue filigree design. The cookies are decorated with orange royal icing roses with green leaves. There is a gold bead border around the edge of the cookies. The cookies are on a burgundy background.
Fall Filigree Cookies
Pumpkin Spice Coffee and Donut Cookies
Fall Leaves Cookies
Fall Sunset Cookies
Fall Leaves Royal Icing Transfers

Floral Cookies

Brush Embroidery Technique
a set of plaque cookies decorated with pink and yellow flowers on black royal icing. The cookies are on a golden yellow background.
3 Wet-on-wet Cookie Designs
Colorful Brush Embroidery
Wet-on-wet Floral Cookies
Sunflower Cookies
Bold Brush Embroidery Cookies
Cookie Bouquet
Simple Wet-on-wet Flowers
Gold Brush Embroidered Cookies
Edible Cookie Box with Wet-on-wet Roses

Halloween Cookies

Spider Brooch Cookies
Halloween Gingerbread House
Brightly colored Halloween cookies decorated to look like a jack-o'lantern wearing a striped witch hat, spider webs with neon green spiders, a bubbling cauldron, and a science beaker
Cute and Colorful Halloween Cookies
Vampire Mermaid Cookies
Jack O’Lantern Cookies
Pastel Glam Halloween Cookies
Monster Cookies for Halloween - these cookies are cut from a butterfly cookie cutter and decorated to look like monster faces. The monsters are decorated in shades of green, orange, and purple royal icing with lots of different textures. The cookies are on a bright pink cake plate on a purple background.
Monster Cookies for Halloween
A close-up of the Spider Queen Halloween Cookie. This cookie is in the shape of a gown. The cookie is decorated with black and white stripes and a spider on the bodice. The top layer of the skirt is hot pink with purple spider webs and a spider on each side. The edge of the top layer is decorated with black ruffles. There is brush embroidery lace layered on the top of the skirt. The bottom layer of the skirt is purple with light purple filigree. The top of the bodice has a black bead border. The cookie is on a platter covered with silver sparkling sugar over a pink backdrop.
Spider Queen Gown Cookie
Spooky Jack O'Lantern Cookie for Halloween - a plaque shaped cookie decorated with a full moon, a silhouette of a haunted house on a hill surrounded by spooky trees and bats. 3 glowing jack o'lanterns are in the foreground. There is an orange bead border around the edge of the cookie.
Hand Painted Halloween Scene
Red and black Halloween gown cookies decorated with filigree, stripes, and royal icing skulls. The cookies are sitting on a platter filled with red sanding sugar.
Filigree Gown Cookie
Royal icing roses and filigree cookies for Halloween - a set of square and rectangle plaque shaped cookies decorated with black royal icing roses and filigree on a taupe base. The cookies are dusted with bronze edible luster dust around the edges. The cookies are on a dark gray background.
Filigree and Roses for Halloween
Spider cookies for Halloween - These cookies are cut into a plaque shape and decorated with spider webs in hot pink and purple. There are black royal icing spiders on the cookies and the cookies are finished with a black brush embroidered lace border. The cookies are on a pink background.
Spider Cookie Plaque Cookkies
Plaque shaped Halloween cookies decorated in beige icing with inlaid gray spider webs. There are black royal icing spiders on the cookies and delicate borders on the edges. There are small round cookies decorated with beige icing and gray roses.
Elegant Spider Cookies
Black Cat Cookies
Cat Silhouette Halloween Cookie

Just For Fun Cookies

Leopard Print Makeup Cookies
A set of cookies decorated with a rainbow tie dye icing design. The cookies are shaped like t-shirts, notebooks, and pencils, and decorated with smiley faces, peace signs, and flowers.
Groovy Tie Dye Cookies
A set of decorated cookies that look like a piping bag icing small flowers, an apron, and a bowl filled with blue icing. The cookies are decorated with dark blue icing and golden yellow flowers. They are on a golden yellow background.
Edible Printed Image Cookies
Star cookies with colorful swirl patterns are on a teal and pink background
No Icing Cookies
star shaped galaxy royal icing cookies decorated with black, blue, purple, pink, and white royal icing. The icing colors are swirled together. There are white royal icing stars in the base layer of icing. The cookies are on a white background.
Galaxy Cookies
A piping bag with a decorating tip next to a set of galaxy cookies with the words "you are amazing" piped in icing.
Pastel Galaxy Cookies
Galaxy Cookies
Galaxy Skull Cookies
Makeup Cookies
A basketball cookie on a backboard cookie. The cookies are decorated with royal icing. The backboard cookie has a yellow, orange, pink, and blue design resembling a sunset. The basketball cookies are shaded around the edges to give a 3 dimensional look.
Airbrushed Basketball Cookies

Rainbow Cookies

A set of cookies decorated with a rainbow tie dye icing design. The cookies are shaped like t-shirts, notebooks, and pencils, and decorated with smiley faces, peace signs, and flowers.
Groovy Tie Dye Cookies
T-shirt cookies decorated with black modeling chocolate carved with designs that show rainbow patterns underneath. The cookies are laying on rainbow sprinkles.
Rainbow Tie Dye T-shirt Cookies
Cookies decorated with mandalas over rainbow icing
Rainbow Mandala Cookies
Rainbow Four Leaf Clover Cookies
Rainbow Heart Cookies
Rainbow Brush Embroidery Cookies
Rainbow Gem Cookies
Rainbow Leopard Print Cookies

Special Occasion Cookies

Embroidery and Cross Stitch Cookies
Wedding cookies decorated with royal icing filigree designs and royal icing roses. One cookie is shaped like a wedding gown and the other is shaped like a tiered wedding cake. The cookies are on piece of lace fabric on a floral platter.
Stenciled Wedding Cookies
Brooch Cookies
Wedding Cookies with Wafer Paper Roses
Monogram Wedding Cookies
Antique Brooch Cookies. Small oval cookies decorated with pearlized royal icing in jewel tones with intricately piped borders painted with silver edible luster dust.
Antique Brooch Cookies
a cookie box with money coming out of it. The top of the box is askew. It is decorated in royal icing with the word "congrats" and a graduation cap.
Graduation Cookie Box
Ornate plaque shaped cookies decorated with deep purple icing. The cookies are adorned a gold lantern, a gold crescent moon and star, and a gold ram. The edges of the cookie are decorated with a filigree design and gold luster dust.
Cookies to Celebrate Eid
Watercolor Family Cookies
Stained Glass Cookies

Valentine’s Day Cookies

Valentine’s Day Gingerbread House
Valentines day cookies decorated with red royal icing and an off-white filigree design. The cookies are on a pink background.
Stenciling with Royal Icing
A cookie decorated to look like a mason jar holding a bouquet of cookie flowers. A banner with the word Premium is across the top left corner of the image
Mason Jar Cookies
Leopard print cookies for Valentine's Day - A set of heart shaped cookies decorated with a brown and black leopard print pattern in royal icing. There is a bright pink ruffle border around each cookie as well as a white bead border on the inside edge of the ruffle. The cookies are sitting on a black diamond shaped background over a teal background.
Leopard Print Valentine’s Day Cookies
Cookies decorated with pink hearts outlined with gold. A banner with the word Premium is across the top left corner of the image.
Pink and Gold Heart Cookies
Valentine’s Day Cookie Kit
Valentine's Day decorated cookies - heart shaped cookies decorated with wet-on-wet royal icing roses. The base layer of icing is teal and the roses are bright pink. There are red dots and yellow leaves on the cookies as well as a pink and yellow dot border around the edges. The cookies are on a bright pink scalloped cake plate on a golden yellow and teal background. There are piping bags filled with icing next to the cookies.
Wet on Wet Heart Cookies
3 heart cookies decorated with a rainbow watercolor design. The work Premium is in a gold banner across the top left corner of the image.
Rainbow Heart Cookies
Conversation Heart Cookies
Heart shaped cookie decorated with pink and purple filigree and a teal bead border
Filigree Heart Cookies

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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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