How to Decorate a Stegosaurus Sugar Cookie-Beginner Friendly Tutorial
This bright design will take you back to Jurassic times. Julia of Julia’s Cookies uses a brilliant green and orange palette to show you how to decorate colorful stegosaurus cookies.
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5 Tipless Piping Bags
- Leaf Green Food Coloring
- Pumpkin Orange Food Coloring
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Super Black Food Coloring (you can also use a candy or edible marker for the black--see step 7)
- Spatulas & pint glasses to fill your piping bags
- Scissors
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Bake and cool cookies before decorating. Make sure cookies are fully cooled. If they are warm, the icing will run off of them. Make royal icing. Learn how to mix different consistencies of royal icing here>>
Prepare the following icing colors:
Piping Consistency:
Green
Orange
Black (Optional if using a candy-see step 7)
Flood Consistency:
Green
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2Using piping consistency orange icing, outline the shape, omitting the spikes on the spine of the stegosaurus. Be sure to define all 4 legs when outlining, as this will help to add dimension to your stegosaurus.
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3With piping consistency orange icing, pipe rectangles for the back two legs. Let the icing dry slightly, then use flood consistency orange icing to fill in these two small rectangles that will be the stegosaurus's back legs.
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4Once the orange outline is relatively dry, use green piping consistency icing to outline the spikes on the spine of the stegosaurus. Fill these outlines with flood-consistency green royal icing.
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Pipe a few squiggles of orange piping consistency icing in the body of the dino. This will help to prevent your flood icing from collapsing as it dries.
Fill in the body of the beast with flood-consistency orange icing. Use a scribe tool or toothpick to move the icing around to ensure full coverage. -
6While the flood icing is still wet, use piping consistency green royal icing to pipe dots to give your dino some detail. Doing this step while your orange flood icing is still wet will ensure that the details look like they are part of the dino, rather than standing out on the body of the dino. If you prefer more dimension, you can wait for your flood icing to dry 30-60 minutes before piping the details.
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Using black piping consistency royal icing, pipe a small dot to create an eye for your dino. If you want to skip mixing up a batch of black icing, you can also use a small candy or nonpareil to create the dinosaur eye.
Cookies decorated by Julia Perugini of @juliascookiesaz>>