How to Decorate a Triceratops Sugar Cookie-Beginner Friendly Tutorial

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
  White
  Black (you can also use a candy or edible marker for the black--see step 7)
  
  Flood Consistency:
  Green
  Orange

  
• 2Using piping consistency orange icing, outline your shape. First, pipe the head, leaving the horns bare. Next, pipe the rest of the body. Pipe small rectangles in the legs to create 4 legs for your dino.
  
• 3Using piping consistency white icing, fill in the horns of the triceratops. Using flood-consistency orange icing, fill the two small rectangles that will be the back legs of the triceratops. Wait for these to dry for about 10-15 minutes.
  
• 4

  Using piping consistency orange icing, pipe some squiggles in the head of the Triceratops. This will help to give your flood some structure, so that the icing doesn't collapse as it cools.
  
  Then, with orange flood consistency icing, fill in the head, using a scribe tool to make sure you have full coverage. Wait for the icing to dry for about 10-15 minutes.

  
• 5

  Using piping consistency orange icing, pipe some squiggles in the body of the Triceratops. This will help to give your flood some structure, so that the icing doesn't collapse as it cools.
  
  Then, with orange flood consistency icing, fill in the body, using a scribe tool or toothpick to make sure you have 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 green 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.
  
• 7Using 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.
  
• 8

  Using white piping consistency royal icing, pipe dots on the bottom of the legs to create cute little toes for your dino.

  
• 9

  Wait until the icing is dry before serving or packaging these cookies.