Make a Snow Globe Christmas Ornament Cookie

Directions

• 1

  Bake and cool cookies before decorating. You can use Ann Clark's fool proof Sugar Cookie Recipe here, or switch things up a bit with decadent Chocolate Peppermint Cookies. 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:
  White
  Soft Blue (create soft blue by mixing royal blue and white food coloring gels into your icing)
  Gold (create gold icing by mixing a tiny amount of mocha brown into your lemon yellow icing)
  
  Flood Consistency:
  Soft Blue
  White
  Green
  
  Pro Tip: To get softer, more pastel colors, mix bright white into your brighter hues.

• 2Begin by outlining an area for snow at the bottom of the shape with white outline consistency icing. Make the top of it wavy, so that it looks like snowdrifts.
  
• 3Fill the white outlined area with white flood consistency icing.
  
• 4Add non-pareils to the area you just flooded, to create a snowy texture. It is important to do this while the white flood consistency icing is still wet, so that the non-pareils stick.
  
• 5Outline the rest of the circle with blue outline consistency icing. Be sure not to outline the top of the ornament, just the circle.
  
• 6

  Fill the blue area with blue flood.

  
• 7

  Move the icing around with a scribe tool or toothpick to ensure full coverage and to pop any air bubbles.

  
• 8While the blue flood is still wet, pipe the green tree shapes in a curvy zigzag, snaking motion as shown. Start from the top of the tree, and let your zigs and zags get wider toward the base of the tree.
  
• 9

  Create two trees, one on either side of the snow globe.

  
• 10While the green icing is still wet, use a scribe tool or toothpick to drag through the green. Drag from the bottom of the tree to the top, as shown. This method will add a pyramidal shape to your tree.
  
• 11

  Use white icing to pipe a zig zag line to create a white tree, using the same method as the green trees.
  
  Tip: Having the white tree overlap the green trees a bit brings it to the foreground and adds a sense of depth.

  
• 12Again, like the green trees, use your scribe tool or a clean toothpick to gently pull the white icing from the base of the tree to the top, creating a pyramidal shape.
  
• 13Immediately add some small white dots of white outline consistency icing to create snowflakes.
  
• 14Add more nonpareils to the blue area and trees to give a layered effect and the look of a true snow globe.
  
• 15Use the gold outline consistency icing to add a squiggle across the top "collar" of the ornament.
  
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• 17

  Using your gold outline consistency icing, pipe a ring on top of the collar.
  
  Bonus: You may wish to add some shimmer by painting the gold area with edible gold paint once it has dried.