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How to Make Upside Down Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies
If you have a gingerbread man cookie cutter, you can make adorable little reindeer cookies for Christmas time! They are so fun to decorate and look super cute on a platter for a party.
Just flip it upside down and pipe on the face!
Kids love to help make these too!
Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies
Ingredients
Equipment:
- Tipless pipings bags or
- Regular piping bags and tip 2
- Couplers if using regular piping bags
- Black Royal Icing
- Brown Royal Icing
- Red Royal Icing
- White Royal Icing
- Wet paper towels
- Gingerbread man cookie cutter
Ingredients:
- 12 Gingerbread Shaped Cookies baked and cooled
- ¼ cup brown royal icing
- ½ cup white royal icing
- ¼ cup black royal icing
- ¼ cup red royal icing
- 3 tbsp pink royal icing
Instructions
- Turn the gingerbread cookie upside down.
- Start by piping on one guy you’re just going to make a white circle make sure that it is fluffy and thick set a cookie outside to dry for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Come back and pipe the second one next to that one this way if the icing touches you will still have two defined eyes.
- Allow the cookies to sit for 15 to 20 more minutes as the eyes are drying.
- Next pipe in a very large red nose where the head of the gingerbread would be.
- You can add a drop of whites for decoration or skip this part.
- Draw in the ears creating a line down the center one side should be flooded brown, Wait 15 minutes before the other side is flooded pink.
- Draw on the antlers and the black dots for the eyes.
- I left the cookies to sit for a minimum of 6 to 8 hours in front of a fan or on a cookie sheet out of reach of others.
- Once the cookies finish drying completely you can then stack them or bag them.
Notes
If making a lot of cookies or doing this with kids you could make some royal icing transfers
by piping large dots of white icing on parchment paper and then pipe small dots of black on the wet icing. Let
them dry for 24 hours before taking them off the parchment paper
Is making a lot of cookies and bagging them allows the cookies to dry for 8 to 10 hours. If it is raining are you
live in a very humid climate allow the cookies to drive for up to 12 hours
We found more than one version of Rudolph Cookie. You can view the alternate here.
live in a very humid climate allow the cookies to drive for up to 12 hours.
The only way to reduce drying time on royal icing cookies is to use a dehydrator that is fitted with a dehydrator
met so that the cookies do not dry out and get hard on the bottom.
by piping large dots of white icing on parchment paper and then pipe small dots of black on the wet icing. Let
them dry for 24 hours before taking them off the parchment paper
Is making a lot of cookies and bagging them allows the cookies to dry for 8 to 10 hours. If it is raining are you
live in a very humid climate allow the cookies to drive for up to 12 hours
We found more than one version of Rudolph Cookie. You can view the alternate here.
live in a very humid climate allow the cookies to drive for up to 12 hours.
The only way to reduce drying time on royal icing cookies is to use a dehydrator that is fitted with a dehydrator
met so that the cookies do not dry out and get hard on the bottom.
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