Candy Corn Beginner-Friendly Cookie Decorating Tutorial

Directions

• 1

  Bake and cool cookies before decorating. Get Ann Clark's no-fail sugar cookie recipe here. Or, sweeten things up a bit with our Powdered Sugar Cookie recipe. Make sure cookies are fully cooled. If they are warm, the icing will run off of them. Make royal icing. Learn how to mix different consistencies of royal icing here>>

  Prepare the following icing colors:
  
  Piping Consistency:
  Orange
  Yellow
  White
  
  Flood Consistency:
  Orange
  Yellow
  White

  
• 2Using yellow piping consistency icing, outline the bottom third of the cookie, as shown.
  
• 3Using white piping consistency icing, outline the top third of the cookie as shown.
  
• 4Using orange piping consistency icing, outline the middle section, connecting the white and yellow sections as shown.
  
• 5Fill in the bottom third of the cookie with yellow flood consistency icing as shown.
  
• 6While the yellow section is still wet, flood the middle section of the cookie with orange flood consistency icing.
  
• 7While the orange section is still wet, flood the remaining top of the cookie with white flood consistency icing.
  
• 8

  While all of the icing is still wet, use a scribe tool or toothpick to gently move the icing around, going section by section and cleaning off your scribe tool or toothpick between sections to prevent the colors from mixing. Moving the icing around a bit will help it to settle and will pop any air bubbles you may have in your royal icing.

  Pro Tip: If you prefer to see more definition between the sections, you can wait for each section to dry until it is just crusting over before flooding the next section.