How to Decorate a Hot Dog Sugar Cookie

Mocha Brown Food Coloring

Lemon Yellow Food Coloring

Super Red Food Coloring

Spatulas & pint glasses to fill your piping bags

Scissors

Step 1: Bake and cool cookies before decorating. Make sure cookies are fully cooled. If they are warm, the icing will run off of them. Make royal icing. Learn how to mix different consistencies of royal icing here>>

Prepare the following icing colors:

Piping Consistency:
Light Brown
Light reddish-brown
Yellow
Red


Flood Consistency:
Light Brown Light Reddish-Brown

Step 2: Using the light brown royal icing, outline and flood the top and bottom "bun" sections as shown in the photo. Let these sections dry for 10-20 minutes until crusted over.





Step 3: Using the pinkish-brown thick flood consistency royal icing, pipe the "hot dog" section. First, outline with piping consistency royal icing. Then, fill with flood consistency royal icing, moving the icing around with a toothpick or scribe to ensure full coverage and to eliminate any air bubbles. Let this section dry for 10-20 minutes until crusted over.





Step 4: Using the yellow outline royal icing consistency, pipe the "mustard" as shown in the photo. Let this icing dry for 10-20 minutes.



Step 5: Using the red outline royal icing consistency, pipe the "ketchup" in an alternating pattern to the yellow icing, as shown in the photo.









Pair these with the hamburger sugar cookies for your next backyard barbecue!

Cookies decorated by Laura Luck of Butterfly Bakes Atlanta



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