Creating cookies as gorgeous and delicious Christmas gifts is a wonderfully fun and sweet (pun fully intended) thing to do. Every year we love the fresh aroma of heart-warming gingerbread cookies or our spiced sugar cookies filling every room. As an extra tutorial, because we’re oh so generous, we’re showing you how to decorate festive Christmas wreath cookies using royal icing (click here for our recipe) and some simple circle shaped cookies!

How to decorate festive Christmas wreath cookies!

Materials and tools needed…

• Circular shaped sugar or gingerbread cookies
• White royal icing the consistency of honey
• White royal icing the consistency of toothpaste
• Green royal icing the consistency of toothpaste
• Red royal icing the consistency of toothpaste
• Cocktail sticks
• Teaspoon
• Lustre dust
• Piping bags
• Small plain round tip
• Small leaf tip
• Small ribbon tip

Step 1:

Outline and flood ice your cookie with white royal icing. You can skip this step if you’re a little anxious about flood icing, but if you’d like to give this technique a try have a look at our rustic Christmas tree tutorial (and simply flood with icing the consistency of honey and skip the texturing step… you’ll need the cocktail sticks and teaspoon for this). Leave to set for 12-24 hours. You can get away with adding extra royal icing decorations after a few hours of flooding your cookie so long as you’re careful.

Step 2:

Take some green royal icing and using a piping bag fitted with a small leaf tip add some textured leaves in the ring around your cookie on top of your flooded icing. Pipe so that the leaves hang over the edge of your flooded icing.

Step 3:

Keep adding lots of lovely green royal icing leaves to make the wreath fuller. Leave to set.

Step 4:

To add a frosty looks pipe out lots of small dots of white royal icing onto your wreath’s foliage. Leave to set!

Step 5:

With a piping bag filled with red royal icing and fitted with a ribbon piping tip pipe out your bow’s loops. You can either pipe out a horizontal figure of eight at the top centre part of your wreath or two horizontal ovals that meet.

Step 6:

Add the tails to your festive red bow by piping out two wavy lines of ribbon from the base of your loops. 

The great thing about whipping these festive wreath cookies is that they’re perfect for a traditional themed Christmas dessert table and they look oh so heart-warming packaged in glimmering treat boxes or bags trimmed with holiday ribbon!