This royal icing cookie decorating tutorial teaches you how to create beautiful chocolate sugar cookies that resemble fall leaves. These cookies are perfect for Thanksgiving dessert spreads and can be made even more special by adding seasonal flavors to the cookie dough and royal icing. To create a fall color palette, you can use PicMonkey and take pictures outside. For the fall cookies, use a simple pumpkin cookie cutter and an oak leaf cookie cutter.
There are 16 cookie tutorials available to help you experience making fall cookies in vibrant colors like pumpkins, candy corns, apples, acorns, and more. To decorate simple, mini fall flower cookies, start with the darkest tone of the color on the edge and outline with the three other lighter colors.
For the fall pumpkin truck cookies, use the suggested colors: Autumn Blue. For the fall sets, use a combo of green, yellow, orange, and red. For a more natural and prettier cookie, use a watercolor technique that blends colors together.
To decorate leaf cookies with The Sugar Art, use the best gel colors in the industry and follow these steps: bake the cookies, apply Frosting Base, spray with Wilton’s Color Mist, and let the cookies dry.
📹 Beginner Fall Cookie Tutorial (Thanksgiving Cookies)
Learn how to make these beautiful Fall cookies for Thanksgiving, use these techniques to make all sorts of beautiful designs!
📹 How to Make Easy Decorated Fall Cookies ~ Just ONE Consistency of Icing!!
This set was designed with at-home beginner cookiers in mind, so it uses just 4 colors and just ONE consistency! Fewer colors …
Wow, ok, this is the most comprehensively informative (yet clear and accessible) article on cookie decorating I’ve ever seen. You’ve addressed every question and challenge that could come up during the process. I’m a “fresh-outta-the-womb” cookie decorator and appreciate this thorough instruction. Thank you, Professor Cookie!🧡😉🧡
I want to thank you for your articles. I love how you give excellent tips and take the stress out of some issues that develop along the way. Your calm reassurance is so helpful, especially for the beginner. I was getting upset with my icing sinking and when I heard you say, “don’t be too hard on yourself” My stress levels dropped and I followed your wisdom.
Absolutely beautiful cookies! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe and taking the time to show each step of the process. What cookie recipe do you use? I have always used my Mom’s heirloom recipe for butter cookies. We call them Christmas cookies but I used to bake and decorate almost 40 dozen for my 3 kids classes. Teacher’s used to ask me to make the cookies or my cupcakes for any occasion at school. 😆 My family owned a bakery/cake shop for over 50 years and I was the cake decorator. My favorite was cookies! Christmas cookies and Snickerdoodles! ❤
As a beginner in this area of cookie decorating I have to say that I absolutely love your style, your techniques and your clear concise instruction. I have always had a desire to decorate beautiful cookies and provide them as gifts or for sale… or to offer for charity events and fundraising. Your articles are amaaaazing and I have spent alot of time going from article to article and am now going to try the above tutorial (since it’s still warm here and the leaves are still plentiful in our region – Ontario). ❤️Love, love, love your website…. thanks for sharing your creativity and your adaptations to various recipes. Bless up!
I love this ! HOWEVER !!!.. I doh’t know in what Universe you believe these are “beginner” cookies. God love ya for your over-developed confidence in other cookiers ! but yeah. Not “beginner” 🙂 PS. I have an order for Ukrainian Christmas cookies, specifically a wheat sheaf motif. I am using your design as inspiration for it.
My daughter and I will be attempting our first cookies of this type. So happy to see your tutorials for Thanksgiving and Christmas cookies. Thank you so much! BUT Where are the cookie and royal icing recipes you mentioned? We hope to impress her friends with cute yummy cookies. Do you have a starter list of supplies needed?
Love those designs! I have a lot of questions 🤣 Do you put the cookie on a sticky surface to prevent it from moving when you’re icing it? Can you use the outline consistency to flood the entire cookie? And can you explain how the dry part works? Cause I don’t really get it. I understood that you need some kind of heat for the icing to dry, by using a dehydration device, or a oven at the lower setting. But then you said that you can use a fan in front of the cookies, but isn’t it some kind of cold? And if you let them dry on the counter overnight, does it have to be in a cold or warm room?
I have been a huge fan of yours for at least 4 years. I was so thrilled when I watched this article where you talk! You are so talented and hearing your advice and thoughts while you make the cookies was so fulfilling!! Thank you and please do more articles where you talk. You are the reason I became a cookie decorator and I want to thank you for your inspiration 🥰
The cookie is burned. It is too thick. Way to much icing. It takes a lot longer for the icing to dry than an hour. Especially depending on humidity where you live. Real professional do not use a needle, does not have several consistency of icing it’s a waste of product, does not have time to spend 10 minutes on one cookie when they have several orders and the smallest order is 4 dozen. And how much are you charging? You are part of the problem when customers come in with unrealistic expectations