Sombrero Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing
These bright and colorful Sombrero Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing are the perfect dessert for a Mexican Fiesta Party.
Servings 18 cookies (approx.)
Equipment
- 1 sombrero cookie cutter
- disposable piping bags
- Piping bag holders optional
- plastic tip couplers optional
- small round piping tips, like #2, #5, and #7
- toothpicks or scribe tool
Ingredients
- your favorite roll out sugar cookie dough see note
- Easy Royal Icing see note
- red, pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue food coloring gel
Instructions
Cut and Bake the Cookies
- Roll the cookie dough out to ¼-inch thickness.
- Cut the rolled dough with a sombrero cookie cutter.
- Bake the cookies on parchment lined cookie sheets according to your recipe's instructions.
- Allow the cookies to cool to room temperature before starting the royal icing.
Outline the Cookies
- Using yellow icing in a disposable piping bag fitted with a small round tip, such as a #2, outline the cookies. Allow the icing to dry for at least 1 hour before flooding.
- Cap or seal off the tip of the yellow outline-consistency frosting, and set it aside for later.
Flood the Cookies
- Thin yellow icing with small amounts of warm water to flood consistency icing. Transfer the icing to a disposable piping bag fitted with a large round tip or the tip cut off of the bag.
- Flood the icing inside the outline. Use a toothpick or a scribe tool to guide the icing to the edges and to swirl the wet icing to remove any bubbles.
- Allow the icing to dry until set, up to 24 hours. How quickly it dries will depend on the temperature and humidity of your workspace.
Add the Details
- Fill disposable piping bags fitted with small round tips with outline consistency icing in the colors of orange, blue, pink, and green. Squeeze a small amount of the outline consistency yellow icing out on a paper towel to ensure it is flowing the tip properly.
- Pipe outline consistency red icing around the brim of the hat as show in the photo.
- Pipe an upside-down "U" shape of yellow outline consistency icing to represent the part of the hat that fits on a head.
- Pipe a line of red outline consistency icing across the top of the hat, then pipe a line of blue outline consistency icing underneath the red.
- Pipe alternating orange, blue, pink, and green dots underneath the red line representing the brim of the hat.
- Pipe a squiggle of orange icing at the top of the hat, then pipe blue dots above the squiggle and pink dot below.
- Allow the icing to dry completely before storing or packaging in treat bags.
Notes
Cut Out Sugar Cookies
Shortbread Cookies
Easy Royal Icing
Storage:
Once the icing has dried completely, store them in an airtight container at room temperature in a single layer. I do not recommend stacking the cookies unless you place aluminum foil between the layers to prevent grease transfer from the top cookie to the bottom cookie.
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