These decorative Candy Cane Cookies are simple and quick to create. Christmas cookies can be given as holiday gifts for family, friends, and neighbors. This step-by-step guide features ingredients from: how to bake Christmas cookies and how to make royal icing. Making your own Christmas cookies instead of buying them from the store can be one way to save money during the holidays.
The first cookie, or small cake, is thought to have appeared in Persia sometime near the 7th century. Baking cookies has been a Christmas tradition for over 1,000 years. The first cookie to be widely associated with Christmas was the gingerbread cookie, which originated in medieval Europe. http://www.christmascarnivals.com/christmas-history/history-christmas-cookies.html
How to Decorate Candy Cane Cookies
This is a demonstration of how to decorate candy cane cookies. The host explains how to turn ordinary Christmas cookies into decorative candy canes, complete with icing and sprinkles. This video is part of a wider series of Christmas food guides, which are available to view for free on the Mahalo.com channel of YouTube.
Step 1: Gather Your Supplies and Ingredients
In order to decorate your candy cane cookies, you will first need to gather the following supplies and ingredients:
- Candy cane shaped Christmas cookies
- Royal icing
- Bowl
- Red food coloring
- Two plastic zip-lock bags
- Scissors
- Parchment paper
- Red sprinkles
- White sprinkleshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzDXSzIBedM
Step 2: Create the Red Icing
Mix half of the royal icing in a bowl with a few drops of red food coloring. Scoop the red icing into one of the plastic bags. Use your fingers to maneuver the icing into one of the lower corners of the plastic bag. Use your scissors to snip the corner of the bag, leaving a very small hole; this is where you will push the icing through.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzDXSzIBedM
Step 3: Add the Red Stripes
Place your candy cane cookie on the parchment paper. Draw the borders of the red stripes by piping the icing from the plastic bag and onto your cookie. Fill in the borders with red icing. Decorate the red stripes on the candy cane cookie with some of the red sprinkles. Allow approximately 30 minutes for the red icing to dry before moving on.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzDXSzIBedM
Step 4: Add the White Stripes
Scoop the remaining royal icing into the second plastic bag. Manipulate the icing into the bottom of the bag and snip off a small corner. Apply icing between the red stripes on your candy cane cookie to create the white stripes. Decorate with white sprinkles. Wait approximately 30 minutes for the icing to dry.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzDXSzIBedM
How to Decorate Santa Cookies
Danielle Bernabe, a professional chef, offers a holiday cooking tutorial on how to decorate Santa cookies. She presents the list of ingredients needed and offers a step-by-step visual demonstration of the decoration process. This cooking guide is part of a larger series of holiday themed cooking videos available on the Mahalo.com YouTube channel.
How to Make Gingerbread Men
This Mahalo holiday food tutorial shows how to make gingerbread men. Chef Danielle Bernabe teaches viewers how to make holiday cookies from scratch. The mixed dough chills for several hours before rolling out and baking. This video is part of a wider series of Christmas Food guides, which are available to view for free on the Mahalo.com channel of YouTube.
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Allow 30 minutes for the first color to dry before beginning the second color.
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Draw the borders of the candy cane stripes before filling in the stripes.
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