How to Decorate an Orange Cookie

Directions

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  Bake and cool cookies fully before decorating. Prepare royal icing in the following colors and consistencies:  

  Outline Consistency:
  Orange 
  Green 
  Brown 

  Flood Consistency: 
  Orange 
  Green 
  White 

  
• 2

  Use your orange outline consistency icing to outline the circular orange. Be sure not to outline the leaf or stem. 

  
• 3

  Outline the leaf with your green outline consistency icing. Add a squiggle of green outline consistency icing in the center of the leaf. 
  Pro tip: Adding a squiggle of outline consistency icing in the center of small flooded areas helps to stabilize the flood consistency icing, preventing “cratering” or icing collapse in small areas. 

  
• 4

  Flood the round orange section with your orange flood consistency icing. 

  
• 5

  Flood your green leaf with green flood consistency icing. Next, add the stem with your brown outline consistency icing.

  
• 6

  Once the green icing is just crusted over, add a line of green outline consistency down the center of the leaf to make it more lifelike. 

  
• 7

  Outline the orange shape with orange outline consistency icing to give it a bit more dimension. 

  
• 8

  Add tiny dots of orange outline consistency icing to the orange to mimic the texture of an orange peel. 

  
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