Making the Cookies

• Combine dough and flour.  Roll to ¼” thickness. Cut out cookie shapes. 
  1 Pkg Pillsbury Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough, 1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
• Bake on prepared baking sheet at 350 for 8 minutes or until the edges start to brown.

Making the Royal Icing

• In a stand mixer combine sugar and meringue powder.  Add 8 tablespoons of water, using the whisk attachment, beat for 1 minute on low. Continue to add water one tablespoon at a time until the icing slowly drizzles from the whisk when lifted.
  4 Cups Powdered Sugar, 3 Tbsp Meringue Powder, 8-12 Tbsp Water 
• Once prepared, if the icing is too hard, add more water one drop at a time. If your mixture is too runny, add more icing sugar one teaspoon at a time.
• Separate the icing into small mixing bowls and add desired food coloring. Mix well. Scoop the icing into piping bags or icing bottles.
  Gel Food Coloring

Decorating Instructions

• Start decorating your cookies by lining around the edge of the design with icing and filling in the middle.  Use a toothpick to poke bubbles or direct icing into holes.
• Allow each design area to dry before moving on. The icing should completely dry, at room temperature for at least four hours, before adding piping details to the top.

Pencil Designs

• Using brown icing, draw and fill in your pencil tip. (You’ll also need brown for the apple stem in the next decorating step, too)
  Edible Markers
• Add a white highlight to the eraser, a black marker “lead” to the pencil tip and yellow line to the flooded area once dry.

Apple Designs

• Add a green leaf, brown stem and white highlight when the flooded area is dry.

Notebook Paper Designs

• Add red and blue lines using an edible marker once the flooded area is dry.
  Edible Markers

EVEN MORE DECORATING TIPS:

Polka Dot Designs

• Before the flooded area dries, add dots of different colored icing.

Zig Zag Design

• Before the flooded area dries, add stripes of different colored icing stacked tightly together.
• Then, drag a toothpick through the stripes.

Alternate Decorating Recommendations:

• Add Sprinkles: Add your favorite sprinkles onto each cookie before the flooded area dries.
• Candy: Glue your preferred candies to each cookie with a drop icing.
• Plaid Pattern: Allow the flooded icing to dry.  Add stripes of icing to the cookie, creating a fun plaid pattern.
• Edible Markers: Before using on the icing, allow the icing to completely harden for at least four hours.