![]() ![]() ![]() Add two small black sprinkle for the nostrils. Next pipe and flood the grey portion of the beak. This will keep the black from bleeding into the grey. Outline and flood the black tip first and let cookies sit in front of a fan until they have begin to crust over. Step 2: For the flamingo cookies: use the pointed end of the candy corn cutter to draw guidelines for the beaks with your food marker. After cutting out the green cookies I used the top of an Eiffel tower cutter to cut out the leaf cutouts. I used this recipe and colored half pink and half green. How to make flamingo cookies step by step! greens – AmeriColor Teal + Americolor Leaf Green.pinks – AmeriColor Dusty Rose + AmeriColor Deep Pink.light green outline icing + flood icingīoth colors were made by creating the darker shade first then adding a small portion of it to white frosting to make the lighter shade.sugar cookie dough (I dyed mine pink + green).cutter with pointed tip, like an Eiffel tower or a moon would work.candy corn cutter (I used the candy corn cutter from the original Sugarbelle shape shifters set).New to cookies? Be sure to check out these posts for the basics: Rolled Cookies 101 + Royal Icing 101 Let’s Make Flamingo Cookies! Have a cookie decorating projector? Great news! Here’s a projector template to make these cookies a breeze. I used an Eiffel Tower Cutter to be exact. Then I used the same cutter to make the sugar cookie palm leaves! All I did to make the leaves what cut out the candy corn shape then used another pointed cutter to cut out the little left cutouts. Instead of piping out an entire flamingo I just made their cute little pink faces using a candy corn cutter which is one of my favorite cutter shapes ever. Something anybody could recreate + add sprinkles naturally. There is nothing I love more then transforming a could be complicated design to a simple yet adorable design. ![]() But I just can’t help but adore these sugar cookie flamingos! Come close I don’t want the other cookies to hear…*whispers* they are my new all time favorite! You guys I’ve made a lot of cookies in my time and I tend to get a little attached to each of them. Were they not worth the wait though? I’m practically obsessed with these cookies and if I have to be honest. Cause you know, that was the right thing to do. But I was not willing to let my flamingo design go to the cookie graveyard, so even though a year later I’m back with some Flamingo Cookies! Just incase your wondering…I baked new cookies. About a month into fall I found those poor pink unfrosted cookies at the back of the freezer. So I tucked a few pink cookies away in the freezer to make my flamingo cookies a reality a week or two later. As I was cutting the watermelon cookie dough I thoug h, oh my gosh these would make the cutest flamingo cookies! Which I’m sure what every single sane baker would think. Ooohhh, leftover dough? Must make more cookies! And that’s exactly what happened last year when I made these Watermelon Cookies. I blame it on always wanting to multitask. I would never! Alright fine you’ve caught me. Have you guys ever baked some cookies with all the intention to decorate them only to never get around to it? Yea, yea me either…there’s totally not an entire tray of cookies still sitting in a tray by my desk. ![]()
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