Pink Ribbon Cookies Tutorial: How To Make Pink Ribbon Cookies

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and since today is October 1st, we wanted to do something to recognize the importance of this issue, and still do something tasty and sweet :) Breast cancer afflicts hundreds of thousands of women a year, affecting the lives of 1 out of every 8 women. It's all too often that we come across someone we know who is suffering from this disease, and our hearts go out to everyone either directly or indirectly affected by breast cancer. You can read more about National Breast Cancer Awareness Month at www.nbcam.org, but if you're looking to do something to commemorate this month, or simply to bring a little more awareness to the family and friends in your life who eat your desserts, learn how to make these pink ribbon cookies with this step-by-step tutorial.

Pink Ribbon Cookie Tutorial Supplies

Pink Ribbon Cookie Tutorial Step-By-Step Directions

1) Prepare your cookies using our sugar cookie recipe and let them cool completely. Make the royal Icing and color it to your preference. Thin the royal icing to the consistency that you like for piping and for flooding. We prepared our icing to a 20-second icing for filling in our whole cookie. If you're just starting with cookie decorating, check out Sweetopia's tips on decorating with royal icing and Sweet Sugar Belle's Twenty Second Icing Tutorial.

2) Start by outlining the cookie with a #2 piping tip.

3) If you're using the 20-second icing, fill in the cookie with the same icing you used to pipe the outline. Or, you can use flooding consistency royal icing to fill in the cookie.

4) Use a toothpick as needed to distribute the royal icing around the cookie.

5) Let the cookie dry for at least an hour before putting on the finishing touches.

6) Prepare some royal icing that is a good consistency for piping. With a #2 piping tip, start in the middle of the cookie making a loop.

7) Continue piping around the cookie.

8) Add some edible sparkles or glitter to add some pizazz to the cookie.

Pink Ribbon Cookie Tutorial Sweet Notes

Never leave royal icing open to air as it does dry out and become crumbly. Keep a damp towel over the bowl if you are working with it, or keep it in an airtight container

Royal Icing can be tricky to work with if you are not familiar with it. Getting the perfect consistency that you prefer decorating with comes with practice, and more practice

We prefer to use gel paste food coloring to tint our royal icing