3 Common Cookie Decorating Mistakes You Need To Avoid!

Do you love to bake cookies but sometimes have trouble with the decorating process? Well, you're not alone! Let me tell you all about 3 common cookie decorating mistakes you need to avoid and some tips on how to avoid them!

Decorating cookies is an art form that I am so passionate about. Whether you want to make them look good or just eat the deliciousness, my favorite part of cookie decorating are those royal icing details! But sometimes even skilled artists can end up with something less than desirable on our hands…

In today's video, we're going over 3 common mistakes made when decorating cookies and how you can avoid them to get beautifully decorated cookies all the time.

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Video Breakdown:
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0:00 - 3 common cookie decorating mistakes to avoid!
0:44 - Mistake #1: Pushing your icing when outlining your cookies
2:11 - Mistake #2: Not putting enough icing in your flood
3:30 - Mistake #3: Not putting enough layers and details on your cookies
4:19 - Tips for putting layers and details on your cookies to make them look amazing!

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[lisatapper]

Your videos are so informative I wish your camera person could go up closer to many of your cookies it’s far away to see details

[caddycraft]

I am a professional baker also (everyone's happy to get a little sweet) lol. I love watching others work when I am stuck home sick, it's relaxing. Love your videos, you're wonderful. Keep up the good vibes!

[coca.noir.patisserie]

Your videos are wonderful i enjoy watching them because i learn alot, thank you! Could i ask you please put background music lower, it cover up your voice is really hard to hear you inhave to repeat many times to hear what you are saying in some parts plus the music makes me headache, is to much noise im teying to concentrate to learn from you and i want to know word but word what exactly you are saying and i really dont want to listen any music or anything else than you, i know its your chanel, your videos and is your choose but i am only asking to reduce the music volume so we can hear you clearly and better, but if this bothers you i am sorry I didn’t mean at all and please disregard my comment

[rachelsantiago]

Thank you for taking time to show your techniques XO

[tg]

Instead of a scribe tool for smoothing your icing, Ijust shake my cookie and it settles it down evenly.

[tgdmuki]

This is exactly the help I needed!! Lolly is great!

[madelinemercado]

Thank you for all the tips, I am a beginner

[RB-bwed]

New subscriber! Love your videos and the recap at the end showing what you done! Awesome work!

[donnabonacquisti]

I would love to attend your cookie camp

[amysasha]

Thanks for the video! Do you have any advice on storage, or the best way to let the icing set before storage?

[elizaricks]

Hey Lolly! I'm new to your chanel, but I love you seem to be an amazing artist when it comes to cookies. I am an absolute begginer, but I want to make some special cookies for friends and teachers to give to them on the last day of school, and I have a couple of questions about decorating cookies. You added a dot pattern with an edible food marker, but would I be able to add it with small dots of frosting? Would that still look cute, or would the bumps make it look too complicated? Another option I thought of was a technique I have seen people do called wet on wet, do you think it would look good if I were to add slightly darker orange dots to the fill? Which one do you think would look better, or should I invest in edible food markers? Another question I have is, when filling with the flood consistency frosting, how do I prevent a visible distinction between the flood and the outline? I also was wondering if it is better for the cookie istelf to be more soft or more, like hard in order to decorate it better? How long does it take for the frosting to harden, and should I wait for the flood base to harden completely before adding details or can I just wait for it to crust over? Does the flood consistency and the thicker frosting have different drying times? Can I use a ziplock sandwich bag in place of a piping bag? How long do the decorated cookies last, like how far ahead of time can I make them? Thank you so much for your time, and if anyone else is able to answer my questions, I would greatly appreciate a response!❤

[Hotintrigue]

Want to learn how to decorate. I have just found your channel and i subscribed..😊

[danielapagliaro]

I have used black sugar pearls for eyes on cookies, and they bleed into my flooded cookie. Can I ask you if you have any advise on this? Thank you for your tips.

[Jess_Bishop]

When I need to wait for an iced cookie to completely set and dry, where do I put it? Do I need to put them in the fridge? Leave them out on the counter? (Wouldn’t that dry them out, texture wise?)

[loiscurrie]

Great tips that I have not run across after two days of scrolling

[rhonda]

I have my own cottage food business making cookies. I actually have two businesses.

[barbpatrick]

What count consistency do you use for your piping and outlining? Thanks.

[JanPaxton]

Like the videos but would like to see what happens when you make the mistakes.

[filarabkids]

I love your video but I hope next time make it more zoom your work so I can see how you do the little detail.

[mvlandis]

You need to get closeup shots with your camera so we can see details. Thanks.