How to Decorate the O Shape for Valentine's Day

Directions

• 1

  Bake and cool cookies before decorating. 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:
  Red
  
  Flood Consistency:
  Bright White
  Red

  
• 2

  We used a gingerbread cookie recipe to make these.

  
• 3Using piping consistency red icing, outline the inner O as shown.
  
• 4With piping consistency red icing, outline the outer O as shown
  
• 5

  With your piping consistency red icing, make a squiggle in the O area that you are about to fill.

  
• 6

  The center of the O will remain bare.

  
• 7Use your red flood consistency to fill in the O, leaving the center bare. Use a scribe tool or toothpick to gently move the icing around. This will ensure full coverage of the cookie and will also get rid of any air pockets in your icing.
  
• 8

  Using your white flood consistency icing, pipe small dots on the O while the flood icing is still wet. This will help the dots blend in with the red.

  
• 9

  If you want more dimension between the red base and white dots, wait for the red flood icing to dry 30-60 minutes until it is just crusted over before piping the white dots.

  
• 10

  This is a great beginner-friendly design, and inverting the colors will add some fun contrast to a full set of Valentine’s Day cookies.