Sugar Cookies for the Super Bowl
Okay, first things firstโฆ Iโm from Pittsburgh and I love my Steelers. I couldnโt be more excited about their Super Bowl win โ itโs a wonderful time to be from the Steel City!
Alright, my gloating over, I had a large cookie order for a Super Bowl party that consisted of 4 dozen of my gourmet chocolate chip cookies, and 3 dozen decorated football sugar cookies. While Iโve spent a lot of time practicing and perfecting the art of cake decoration, this was my first time doing fully decorated sugar cookies, and I have to say โ I think they turned out pretty well!
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I used a basic royal icing recipe to decorate these cookies and the method I used was to outline the footballs with a #2 tip and then flood the inside with thinned icing. Once dry, I outlined and flooded the white stripes on the sides and then used a #2 tip to add the laces at the top. I think I might be addicted to this and am looking forward to finding excuses to make other cookies to decorate!
If you havenโt decorated sugar cookies before, please check out the โDecorating with Royal Icingโ tutorial that I have since posted. It is a step-by-step guide (with pictures) on how to decorate sugar cookies with royal icing.
Nebraska girl here, and I love the Steelers also!! The cookies look great. I am trying my first football cookies today. Good job!! Keep them coming!!
Hi! These cookies look amazing! Do you think they would ship okay? If so, any advice on that? Thanks!
Hi Lisa, I have shipped decorated sugar cookies before and Iโll be honest โ itโs hit or miss. Sometimes they show up perfectly fine, and sometimes they can crack or break. I always wrap them individually and then try to use bubble wrap of some sort. This tutorial at Bake at 350 is really useful: http://bakeat350.blogspot.com/2009/11/shipping-cookies-and-twitter-works-for.html
Thank you SO much for responding so quickly and the link to the tutorial! :) I really appreciate it!!!
Hope you have a great weekend!
Thank you so much for the encouraging tutorial on Royal Icing. I made Super Bowl cookies this evening as my mother babysat and am really impressed with how they turned out. I have always wanted to try โfloodingโ and thanks to your great tips I was able to. Have a great game
Good job and keep it up! When I surf in the internet looking for Sugar Cookies, I found your website. Thanks for your tutorial, I can sit for a day to surf and learn anything to do with baking and cooking. Thanks again for your kindness and sharing, hope to learn gingerbread house โ step by step. Have a nice day and take care!
They look so cute, and really professional! Great job! I really want to try to decorate cookies sometime soon, so Iโll have to check back to the blogs you recommended.
Your cookies look so so good!
In honor of Valentineโs Day, I did a post (http://myfirstyearasawallace.blogspot.com/2009/02/in-honor-of-fact-that-its-valentines.html)on blogs that I *love* and youโre on that list! Thanks for having such a great blog! Your food is beautiful!
Too cute! I love these.
Those look great (and yummy too!). Iโm a Cowboys fan, so I was upset we werenโt there. But, the game was very exciting anyway!!
Yahoo for the Steelers!! The cookies are amazing!! Nice job for your team!
Your cookies are amazing! Excellent job.
Awesome football cookies!
These turned out unbelievably cute!! Great job, I love them :)
OH MY GOSH Chelle! They look FABULOUS!!!!!!! Great job! Really!!!
I love these! Everyone who get to eat them was lucky indeed!
Those are so cuteโฆ and I love the Pampered Chef bakers matโฆ.it is one of my favorites!!
Iโve been a cookie decorator for a decade and have trained tons of new decorators. I can definitely say, GREAT job! These look really wonderful. Bravo.
KATE โ Oh, tell me about it! Those last two and a half minutes certainly took at least a few years off of my life!
Yay Steelers! Those last 2 minutes of the fourth quarter were completely nerve-wracking.
The cookies look GREAT! I gave homemade fondant a try for the first time and decorated my cupcakes with the Steelers logo (HUGE Steelers fan)โฆ but they were all consumed before I had a chance to take a picture!
What a great festive cookie for the Superbowl!!