How to Make Decorated Patriotic Star Cookies
These Patriotic Star Cookies feature the bold and beautiful colors of red, white, and blue, creating a stunning and festive appearance. Perfect for all your patriotic celebrations: Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day.
updated from 2014
DECORATED PATRIOTIC STAR COOKIES STEP-BY-STEP
- Cookie Decorating Guide
- Beginner’s Guide To Cookie Decorating
- Ultimate Guide to Cut-Out Cookies (tips, tricks, troubleshooting)
- Royal Icing Recipe
- Small Batch Royal Icing Recipe
- Cookie Icing Recipes (includes vegan royal icing, glaze, fondant)
- Guide To Royal Icing Consistencies with Visual Help(what is stiff, flood icing, etc.)
- How To Freeze Royal Icing
- How To Make Royal Icing Transfers
- Royal Icing FAQ ( for example: how to make black icing, color bleeding, storage, and more)
- How To Make a Cookie Cutter Template
- Ultimate Guide To Cookie Decorating Tools
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THINGS YOU NEED
- Star Cookie Cutters, Round Cookie Cutter
- Ruler or a straight edge cardstock
- Lined Paper
- Gel Food Coloring: sky blue, royal blue, red
- Sanding Sugar: white, light blue
- Edible Markers
- Tipless Piping Bags
- Scribe Tool
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BAKE COOKIES
Use your favorite cut-out cookie recipes to prepare the cookies. Or you can use one of these tested cut-out cookie recipes.
In this tutorial I show you how to decorate 2 different shapes. Star and a round with a star in the middle. If you plan on shipping these patriotic star cookies, I highly recommend that you use an alternative round shape. It’s less prone to breaking in shipping.
ROYAL ICING COLORS AND CONSISTENCIES
- Sky Blue, Red, Royal Blue, White Icing: 15 second consistency
- White Icing, Sky Blue: piping consistency
DECORATE STAR COOKIES
Start by drawing the decorating guide onto the cookie. Use an edible marker and a straight edge to draw on cookies (steps 1-2). Then use red and white icing and outline each triangle and fill it with icing. Don’t wait for the icing to crust to flood the adjacent section. Use a scribe tool to smooth and distribute the icing. Focus on accentuating arms’ points (steps 3-8).
Continue until you have three triangles left. Switch to royal blue icing and fill three triangles with blue icing. Immediately make polka dot pattern with white icing. Make the first line of dots thru the middle and then stagger other dots (steps 1-8). Let icing dry overnight.
Use white icing (piping consistency) and outline the star and triangles. Immediately dust icing with white sanding sugar. Gently shake off excess and allow to dry for 2 hours before packaging and storing cookies (steps 1-8).
ROUND STAR COOKIES
Now let’s have a look on how to decorate round cookies with a star in the middle. To streamline the decorating process I created a star indentation in the round cookie with a star cookie cutter, before the cookies were bakes. Then when the time comes to decorate you don’t need to trace the shape onto the cookie, because it’s already there.
Start by creating a triangular guide using an edible marker and a ruler or a cardstock (steps 1-2). Outline and fill in red and white triangles, alternating colors until you have three triangles left (step 2-8). Then fill the three triangles with blue icing and using wet-on-wet decorating technique create polka dot pattern (refer to the star tutorial above)
Outline and fill the area around the patriotic star with light blue icing. Let the icing dry overnight (steps 1-8).
Outline the star with blue icing (piping consistency) and immediately dust icing with light blue or white sanding sugar (steps 1-5).
RED AND WHITE STRIPED STAR COOKIES
Use a lined paper or a grid to draw the even lines onto the cookie, using an edible marker (steps 1-3).
Outline and flood every other section with red icing. There is no need to wait for the icing to crust. Follow with the next decorating step (step 1-8).
Fill the remaining sections with white icing. Use the scribe to accentuate the points (steps 1-8).
POLKA DOT STAR COOKIES
Outline and flood star cookie with royal blue icing (15-second consistency). Switch the piping bag and immediately, using 15-second consistency white icing, pipe polka dot pattern, using wet-on-wet technique.
TIP: Do you struggle with polka dots? Pipe a line of small dots across the middle. Then stagger remaining polka dots.
MORE PATRIOTIC RECIPES
This cookie decorating tutorial was published on May 210, 2014. On June 19, 2024, I updated this cookie decorating tutorial with step-by-step pictures and written text.
