How to Make Easter Cookie Decorating Kits

🐰 Easter Cookie Decorating Kit Options

Are you hosting an Easter Sunday gathering, or maybe you need an Easter activity for church or school? Try making Easter Cookie Decorating Kits and handing them out to the kids. We have several options based on the age, preparation and difficulty for the kids.

Not Easter season? These kits can be swapped out with whatever season or event of your choosing - the kit options remain the same! These work for Christmas, Halloween and Birthdays as well.

Option 1- Basic Cookie Decorating Kit:

Provide your cookie artists with "naked" cookies that have been made, cut and baked but not flooded with icing. This is PERFECT for birthday parties as the kids feel very creative, and so proud of what they have created! HOWEVER, this can be the messier option 😂

1. Provide the cookies along with different colored icing in pre-filled, disposable, tipless bags, and instructions on how to cut the tips for decorating.
2. The cookies do not need to be flooded, the kids will decorate the whole cookie at once in one sitting with the bags of icing.
3. Give them stiffer consistency icing that will not drip off the side of the cookie and will hold its shape as they decorate.

What You Will Need:

• Cookies using our Ultimate Sugar Cookie Recipe
• Easter Cookie Cutters - the most popular shape is our Easter Egg Cutters, but kids love the Easter Bunny Cutters and the Flower Cookie Cutter as well.
• Royal Icing using our Royal Icing Recipe or using Dream Meringue Powder in a slightly stiff consistency to prevent dripping, colored with DecoPac Premium Gel Colors.
• Disposable tipless bags (you can find these at any craft store or online).
• Any "extras" such as edible glitters or sprinkles

Option 2 - Easter Egg Cookie Decorating Kit:

Help them out a bit, by providing Easter Egg shaped cookies, that have been flooded with white (or any pastel Easter color) then let the kids "decorate" the eggs with icings and top with edible sprinkles or glitter. By flooding the cookies, you are providing them with a blank canvas to create any design on their egg!

1. Provide flooded cookies along with smaller, pre-filled, tipless bags, and instructions on how to cut the tips for decorating.
2. Give them stiffer consistency icing that will not drip off the side of the cookie and will hold its shape as they decorate.
3. Give them small bags of Easter colored sprinkles to "gild the lily" when they are done icing.

What You Will Need:

• Cookies using our Ultimate Sugar Cookie Recipe that are flooded using our Royal Icing Recipe or using Dream Meringue Powder
• Slightly stiffer consistency icing in different colors using DecoPac Premium Gel Colors for the kids to decorate their eggs.
• Easter Egg Cutters in any shape.
  
• Disposable tipless bags (you can find these at any craft store or online).
• Any "extras" such as edible glitters or sprinkles

Option 3 - Easter PYO Cookie Decorating Kit:

This option will need a bit more prep work on your end. You will need to bake the cookies as instructed, then flood them with white icing, then using black icing, stencil Easter-themed designs on top. You then present the cookies to the kids with the edible paint palettes and/or markers for them to color in. Think of it like an edible coloring book! 

1. Provide flooded, stenciled cookies along with edible paint palettes, markers and food safe, disposable art brushes.
2. You may want to bag the items together as a "bundle" or kit" and pass out to each child.

 

What You'll Need:

• Cookies (Use our Ultimate Sugar Cookie Recipe) baked and cut into the desired shapes using the cookie cutters that accomodate the PYO Stencils.
• Easter PYO Cookie Stencils of your choice, along with their matching cookie cutter! 
• Stencil Genie tool (optional)
• Icing Genie stencil scraper
  
• Royal Icing using our Royal Icing Recipe or using Dream Meringue Powder. You will need white to flood the cookies, then black to stencil the design onto the cookie.
• DecoPac Premium Gel food coloring in Black to tint the royal icing. 
• Edible Paint Palettes, Markers (bold tip) or make your own PYO Paint Palette cookies, and Food-safe brushes to include with the cookies so that your customer, guests or trick-or-treaters can "color" or "paint" their cookies! 

Instructions on How to Make the PYO Cookies:

1. Make your cookies and cut using the matching cookie cutters . 
2.  Bake them according to the recipe, cool them on a rack.
3.  Flood the cooled cookies with white royal icing – make this as flat and smooth as possible by using a thinner consistency and putting more icing down than you think you need. This smooth texture helps with the stenciling.
4. If you are using the Stencil Genie tool, place the stencil over the cookie. The Stencil Genie attachment tool will hold the stencil firmly in place.
5. Once the stencil is where you want it, use a small spatula to place some of the thick instant mix black icing onto the stencil. Apply more icing than you need and do so gently to prevent the stencil from bleeding onto the cookie. Start at the edges and work your way in.Top Tip: Don’t use too thin icing – this could bleed through.
6.  Using the scraper, gently remove the excess black icing until the design starts showing. Remove the stencil. This should have left a neat outline of the stencil on the cookie.
7. Save any excess icing for the next cookie.
8. Once the black icing sets, and is completely dry, you can package!
9. When ready to package your PYO cookies, take a clear flat bag, and insert the cookie, the palettes, markers and brushes you wish to use and tie with a orange and black ribbon!