Cookie Decor: A Quick Idea

Just a quick note to mention what we have been up to at our house!  The above picture is centered around an idea I saw a long time ago in a parenting magazine and it turned out pretty well.  These are just plain sugar cookies (not yet baked) decorated with those little tubes of gel frosting.  The sugar cookies are from this recipe and I really liked them.  I have it flagged for the day sometime in the future when I finally do one, big, sugar cookie cook off and compare all my favorite recipes and taste them side by side to find the best one.  Until then, I just keep trying them individually and discarding those that are so so and keeping those which I like.

So about these cookies, the gel just kind of sinks into the cookies and dyes it.  If you use a heavy hand, it ends up caramelizing on top.  This ended up being much less messy than I thought it would be and was so much easier than frosting.  We could be a lot more creative with the decorating.  This is what they look like baked:
The original plan was to do just Easter egg shapes and ‘dye’ the cookies for Easter.  But with the timing of a new baby and a national holiday, they ended up being just spring themed.  Still super fun and definitely an idea we will use in the future!

Have fun!