How to Decorate a Tractor Cookie with Royal Icing

Directions

• 1

  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
  Blue
  Black
  White
  Orange (or you can use a candy-see step 11)
  
  Flood Consistency:
  Green
  Blue
  Black

• 2Using piping consistency blue icing, outline the window shape as shown. Remember that you need to leave space for the tractor wheel and hub, so create a curve at the bottom to make space.
  
• 3Next, outline the body of the tractor with green piping consistency icing. Again, be sure to leave space for the wheels.
  
• 4Flood the window of the tractor with blue flood-consistency icing.
  
• 5Using black piping consistency icing, outline the tractor tires. Pipe in a zig-zag pattern around the big tire. This will create definition in the treads on the tire.
  
• 6Once the window area is dry and beginning to crust over, flood the green body of the tractor with green flood-consistency icing. Wait 30-60 minutes for the green icing to begin crusting over.
  
• 7Now, flood the tires with black flood-consistency icing.
  
• 8While the black is still wet, use green piping-consistency icing to pipe dots in the center of each wheel, as hubcaps of sort.
• 9Use the green piping-consistency icing to outline the window, creating good definition between the window and the body of the tractor. Lift your piping bag straight up after piping each line.
• 10Once all of the icing is dry and crusting over, pipe a few swooping lines of white on the window to create some glare. Remember to pull your piping bag straight up when you want your line to end, this will prevent unwanted wandering lines.
  
• 11Add a dot of pumpkin orange piping consistency icing or a small orange candy (like an M&M) to the front of the tractor for the headlights.
• 12Pipe details on the tractor. Use green piping-consistency icing to create wheel wells over the wheels.
• 13

  Use black piping-consistency icing to create additional details on the tractor. Pipe lines across the body and on the undercarriage. Pipe lines in the wheels to add more dimension.