How to Decorate Five Birthday Cookies

Birthday Cookie Decorating Kit

$31.33

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Nothing makes a birthday sweeter than cute decorated cookies! Our newest kit has the essentials for making five birthday cookies: Cake, Present, Balloon, Candle, and Happy Birthday cookie!

Cookie Yield

For a single batch of dough, you can make about 23 of these cookies (5 cakes, 4 presents, 6 candles, 4 fluted circles, and 4 balloons). I should note that I roll my cookies to 1/4" thick using the Dough EZ Rolling Mat System. The thickness of your cookies will impact your yield.

COOKIE RECIPE: For a cookie recipe and rolling and baking video CLICK HERE - this recipe can be doubled in a KitchenAid Mixer.

Prepping the Royal Icing

ICING PREP

For a single batch of dough, I typically use a single batch of icing. Since I'm using a KitchenAid mixer, I made a double batch of icing and split it in half (reserving half for another project).

ICING GUIDE

The birthday cookie set has 6 icing colors - using 5 gels (I used the pink in both pastel and dark tone).

ICING PLAN BY THE OUNCE

Turquiose - 4 oz (pipe and flood)
Bright White - 5 oz (pipe and flood)
Deep Pink - 1 oz (pipe only)
Pastel Pink - 3 oz (pipe and flood)
Lemon Yellow - 3 oz (pipe and flood)
Purple - 3 oz (pipe and flood)

These amounts are ESTIMATES. When it comes to how much icing to make, l don't measure exactly...I estimate. For a more detailed look at icing planning, CLICK HERE to read this helpful blog post.

ROYAL ICING RECIPE

For a royal icing recipe and video CLICK HERE - this recipe can be doubled in a KitchenAid Mixer.

Project Timeline

Plan ahead to enjoy the most success with your cookie project! I break up the decorating process. It works better with my life to do a little each day. Here is the schedule for this cookie project and estimated times on how long each phase takes.

DAY 1

Mix Dough (30 mins), Chill Dough (2 hours inactive time), Roll and Bake (1 hour), Mix Royal Icing and Prep Icing Colors - it is helpful to make the colors the day before you decorate because the color will deepen overnight (1 hour).

DAY 2

Outline and Flood Cookies (1-2 hours), Allow to dry in front of fan before adding details (1 hour for standard cookies or 6 hours before stenciling with royal icing - like the Happy Birthday cookies). Piping details and stenciling (1.5-2 hours)

**ALLOW COOKIES TO FULLY DRY 18-24 HOURS BEFORE PACKING. STORE IN A COOL OVEN OVER NIGHT.**