What is Christmas without cookies? You can certainly follow a few handy tips on Christmas cookies decorating when it comes to making your cookies special, but it is best to give flight to your imagination and have a field day trying to picture Santa gobbling up your sugared handicrafts.  It is also a good idea to get your kids to join in and allow them to decorate Christmas cookies as the occasion is a joyous time for them as well.  Few would actually argue with the fact that the decorated Christmas cookies are actually one of the best adornments of the festive occasion and the riot of colored icing sugars and bits and pieces of nuts and fruits often find their way into the little mouths instead of landing on the surface of the baked cookie. Isn’t this one of the best tips on Christmas cookies decorating that you have read in recent years?

Well, it is time to bring out the gum drops and assorted nuts along with the pastry bags in order to decorate Christmas cookies. Let us see how we can go about the task of obtaining an adequate amount of decorated Christmas cookies well before Christmas is upon us this year.

Pre-Baking: It is possible to decorate Christmas cookies even before you pop them into the oven. 

• You just need to sprinkle powdered colored sugar on the surface of the cookie before it is sent into the oven.
• It is equally easy to mix some food color with egg yolks and beat them well before painting your cookies in multicolored splendor. 
• Nuts, bits of dried fruits, dragees or sprinkles on your cookies make them look alluring and you can add them on before proceeding to bake your decorated Christmas cookies.

Royal Icing: A mixture of egg whites together with the cream of Tartar and lemon extracts or vanilla essence along with powdered sugar and permissible colors is the most traditional way to decorate Christmas cookies. A thick consistency can be used to outline the cookies while a thinner icing can be used to color the entire surface of the decorated Christmas cookies.

Decorating a ginger bread man is definitely one of the high points in the life of a child. Feel free to let your kid unleash his/her imagination while decorating Christmas cookies. Remember there is  no right or wrong way of doing  it. Joy and happiness are the best ingredients that go into decorated Christmas cookies.   

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