Wet-On-Wet Royal Icing Decorated Cookies for Christmas

Here is another Christmas cookie set that I made using natural food coloring. In the latest tutorial in the Cookie Art Club, I'll show you how to make these wet-on-wet royal icing decorated cookies for Christmas and I'll show you how I write on cookies without a projector.

The video tutorial, 4 different holiday greetings templates, instructions, and recipes to make these beautiful Christmas cookies are in the Cookie Art Club!

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When I write on cookies with royal icing without a projector, I use the tissue paper method where I trace a template with an edible ink marker and then transfer the design onto the cookie by tracing the template again so that the ink bleeds through the tissue paper onto the icing.

However, since I don't have an edible ink marker that contains natural food coloring, I had to go with a different method to transfer the lettering onto the cookie so that I could pipe over it. This time, I placed the template over the cookie and poked through it into the icing with my scribe tool.

This is a very tedious process and I wouldn't recommend it if you have to make more than a few cookies like this, but it's a suitable alternative for those of us who don't have a projector at home.

Here's what you'll need to make these wet-on-wet royal icing decorated cookies for Christmas

These supplies are available in my Amazon store unless otherwise noted

• Chilled sheet of cookie dough (I used my gingerbread cookie recipe)
• Bow, Tree, SweetAmbs Small Plaque, and Long Fancy Plaque cookie cutters
• Royal icing
• The Sugar Art natural food coloring in Ruby, Ivory, and Garden Sage
• 2 12” decorating bags with couplers
• Decorating tips 1 and 3
• 3 Tipless decorating bags
• Bag ties or rubber bands
• Scribe tool
• Merry Christmas template

Relevant tutorials: Royal Icing 101 (available in the Cookie Art Club!)

Want to make these Christmas cookies yourself? The video tutorial and recipes to recreate them are available to Cookie Art Club members and you can try it free for 7 days.

Let me know if you make them and share your photos with me in the Cookie Art Club!