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Nothing says holidays like a sweet treat baked with love. Here’s someways you can decorate cookies that look fancy but aren’t as hard as they seem. We used a simple sugar cookie recipe but you could get creative with any kind of cutout cookie. Maybe make them chocolate? Add a different extract? The possibilities are endless!
1. Simple Sprinkles
2. Pinwheel: Make your sugar cookie dough as you normally would. Split dough and use food coloring 
3.Marble Cookies: You will more than likely have extra dough left over after making pinwheels. If you combine these two doughs and roll them out you will get a fun maybe effect. Cut out shapes and bake according to your recipe.
Now on to icing options:
That simple sugar cookie recipe can be transformed just by adding a little icing. Two favorites are buttercream and royal icing.
Buttercream : Make your buttercream according to this recipe (or purchase a ready-made Buttercream Icing
Bonus! You could stack two cookies together for a cookie sandwich!
Royal Icing Option: Royal icing can be intimidating but it doesn’t have to be (you can purchase a ready-made Royal Icing
Outline the cookie and then flood the inside.
We used sprinkles for our first design and swirled another color in our second.
Whatever decorations you chose will be a sweet addition to the holiday. Test out a few of these cookie ideas but remember to have fun with it. No one really cares what a cookie looks like as long as they get to eat something delicious in the end!
