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Ruffled Flamingo Cookies
These fun summer cookies are ready to fla-mingle! Great for birthday celebrations or summer retirement parties, these Ruffled Flamingo Cookies have just the right amount of sweetness and sass! Ice your homemade roll-out cookies with a cool aqua blue buttercream, then use round and petal piping tips to create a fun flamingo design on each treat. A simple decorating project for beginners, these summer cookies are just the pop of pink your party needs!
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Prep1 hr 15 min
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Total Time3 hr
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Skill LevelIntermediate
Ingredients
Roll-Out Cookie Dough Recipe
Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4 lb. Tub
Teal Icing Color
Kelly Green Icing Color
Pink Icing Color
Black Icing Color
Tools
Rolling Pin
Cooling Grid
Circle Double Cut-Outs Set (“A” cut-out used)
Disposable Decorating Bags
Standard Coupler (3 needed)
Round Decorating Tip 8
Round Decorating Tip 1
Round Decorating Tip 2 (2 needed)
9 in. Angled Spatula
Petal Decorating Tip 101
Instructions
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- Bake cookies. Prepare cookie dough following recipe instructions. Roll out and cut cookies using straight side of largest cut-out from set (“A” cut-out). Bake and cool.
Tint buttercream. Tint 1 cup buttercream aqua blue using color combination provided. Combine Teal and Kelly Green icing colors to get aqua blue color shown.
Using Pink icing color, tint 1 cup buttercream pink. Using Black icing color, tint 1/4 cup buttercream black. Reserve remaining buttercream white.
Prepare 3 decorating bags with couplers. Fill separately with pink, black and white buttercream. Attach tips: tip 8 on pink, tip 1 on black, tip 2 on white.
Decorate cookies. Spatula ice top of cookies smooth using 9 in. angled spatula and aqua blue buttercream.
Using pink buttercream, pipe flamingo’s head, neck and body.
Switch pink bag to tip 101s; using ruffle technique, pipe feathers on body of flamingos.
Switch pink bag to tip 2; pipe legs and dots around the cookie.
Using white buttercream, pipe first half of beak.
Using black buttercream, pipe tip of beak and eyes.
Notes
How To
How to Pipe Ruffles
Ruffles add a decorative top border to your cakes or cupcakes. Pipe ruffles around plaques or to trim doll dresses or bonnets.
How to Pipe Dots
Perfect for classic borders or cloudlike decorations, dots are a versatile technique that can be piped in a range of sizes. The dot technique can be used as a simple border for cakes and cookies, as well as for icing cupcakes or piping meringues.
