How to Decorate a Pumpkin Spice Latte Sugar Cookie

Directions

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  Bake and cool cookies before decorating. Get Ann Clark's no-fail sugar cookie recipe here. To make your cookies taste like a PSL, try our Pumpkin spice sugar cookie recipe here. 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:
  Earthy Green (Create this color by mixing in a drop of Mocha Brown food coloring with your Leaf Green icing.)
  Soft Pink
  Brown
  
  Flood Consistency:
  Earthy Green (Create this color by mixing in a drop of Mocha Brown food coloring with your Leaf Green icing.)
  Brown
  Soft Pink
  White

• 2Outline the main part of the teacup with green piping consistency icing as shown. Be sure to define the cup and base when outlining. Pipe a few squiggles of green piping consistency icing in the body of the teacup, which will give your flood icing better structure.
  
• 3

  Using flood consistency icing, flood every other section of the mug. You don't want to flood two sections that are touching, as the different flood icings will bleed into each other, blurring definition and mixing colors. We flooded first the top part of the lid brown, then the two light pink sections located above the sleeve and below the sleeve.
  
  Wait for the flood icing to dry until it is just crusted over, 30-60 minutes. You can speed up this process by placing your cookies under or next to a fan set at medium speed.

  
• 4Pipe a few squiggles of green piping consistency icing in the sleeve of the cup, and then flood with green flood consistency icing. The squiggles will help give your flood consistency icing structure, preventing it from collapsing. After flooding the shape, move the flood icing around with a toothpick or scribe tool to remove any air bubbles trapped in the icing and to coax it to the edges for full coverage.
  
• 5While the green flood icing is still wet, pipe white flood consistency dots throughout the sleeve for some additional interest.
  
• 6Finish flooding the cookie by using brown flood consistency icing to fill in the lower part of the lid, just above the main cup part. Gently move the icing around with a scribe tool or toothpick to get rid of any air bubbles and to ensure full coverage.
  
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  Lastly, pipe any additional details with piping consistency icing. You can write a message on the sleeve of the cup, and outline the lid and sleeve to add more definition. Just be sure that your flood icing is dry to the point of crusting over before adding any details.