These red and white Christmas cookies were made entirely free hand without the use of stencils or guides. I made a short video to show how I created the tiny deer using royal icing.
I began with a 4" Christmas tree cookie, which I iced and let dry overnight.
While trying to come up with a design for my Christmas cookies this year, my mom suggested that I use only red and white. A few days later, I saw this red and white tablecloth on my friends' dining table. It became the inspiration for the filigree trees. 
These cookies are available for sale in my Etsy shop:
Thanks for the suggestion, mom! And thanks, T&J for having an awesome tablecloth.
Hello! Just wondering if you have or could share tips for shipping these beautifully iced cookies safely..?
Thank you!
How do you get the icing to be so beautifully red? Is there a brand that you use of color that's works better then others?
A couple of years ago I paid for some of the tutorials. I cannot remember you to sign on. Thanks kathy king.
Hi Kathy! Please send an email to info@sweetambs.com and we'll help you 🙂
WOW, I´m so impressed with you work..it looks so easy..I´m always afraid of working with RI, because the consistence of my homemade recipe is weather too smooth so it rinse always of the cake...some trials went wrong...will try your recipe anyway...hope it will work out! greetings from austria!
best, sandra
Thanks Sandra! Let me know how you like the recipe.
I thought if I couldn't find the scribe locally, a cake tester might work right?
I haven't tried that myself, but a cake tester seems like it might work!
This actually inspired the tags, stickers and wrapping for my Christmas presents this year. 🙂 I was struggling with it and had already decided on a design for the cookies (a simple one since I needed to do over 80), but I saw these cookies on Pinterest and knew I had to do a fair isle style "branding" for the whole thing. Thanks for the inspiration! 😀
That's great! I'd love to see photos of what you created!! I'm glad my cookies inspired you!
Wow, Wow, Wow...Love to see your cakes, that's high class handwork.
Merry Christmas from Denmark.
Marianne
Thank you Marianne! Merry Christmas to you, as well!
I'm mesmerized by your tutorials and love the music that goes along with them. You make it look so easy, yet if you saw my outcomes, you would giggle. Are you going to do any seminars in New Orleans, like the one you just did in New York?
Thank you! I'm glad you like them! I do plan on traveling to teach classes one day soon.
I just watched you make the deer.... That is so amazing!!!
I can't believe how much time it would have taken you.
How many deer did you do all together?
Thank you! Each deer cookie takes me about 1 hour to complete.
You do not charge enough! Holy cow, these are amazing.
Thank you!! 🙂
Amber - you are so talented and I am so impressed with this tutorial, I have watched it so many times and it still amazes me how incredible you are. Could I please ask that you share a cookie recipe, I would love to try this and know that your recipe would be amazing too. Many thanks.
Thank you! I will be posting my cookie recipe on the site very soon!
I love you work... You are amazing... Ive noticed in a few tutorials a blue scribe... Can you tell me where I can find one?
Thank you! This particular blue scribe was purchased at the bookstore of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. I haven't been able to find one exactly like it anywhere else, but there is a similar product listed here: https://sweetambs.wjlabs.net/my-favorite-decorating-products/
Wonderful!
Thank you!
So striking! This proves one should always listen to their mother. lol Thank you for the tutorial on the deer!
Haha that's true! Thank you!
Dear Amber, finally I also can leave a comment, before it was impossible to write my name and e-mail it crashed every time!
I love this set sooo much, your style is unique, smart and elegant.
I feel you are daily surronded by Art and Beauty, I see it in all your works. Always getting inspiration by you, love, Evelin ^___^
Thank you Evelin!! 🙂