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Learn how to make some colorful Fall or Fall leaf decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!

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We've run out of "acceptable" breakfast cereals at my house. I'grand not gonna lie...information technology'southward been crude.

Sometimes, I buy cereals based on the nutritional content and my current efforts as a loving mother to help my children exist cocky-aware and make healthy food and life choices so that someday they can grow up to be happy, successful adults. Sometimes, I buy cereals based on my very low tolerance for incessant "please, please, pleasing" while simultaneously jumping well-nigh and very nearly knocking things over.

And then as you can imagine, we take a stack of healthy-er-ish cereals in our cupboards of whose very existence my children refuse to acknowledge.

After existence away a bunch this fall because of back-to-back CookieCon schedules...we hitting an all-fourth dimension depression this calendar week. The very last of the impulse cereal purchases was consumed.

My kitchen tabular array looked similar a scene from the Colosseum - open cereal boxes everywhere as they tried to find one that was brightly colored and tasted remotely similar direct sugar, cereal pieces all over the floor from the biting back-and-forth tug-of-state of war struggle of the terminal basin of the final box, chairs knocked over, one child crying ON THE Table, and milk...everywhere.

I feel like at this bespeak, nosotros're just going to have to power through. Either they volition become Spartan warriors...or...actually, that's probably the only pick actually. Considering they are Not quitters. They won't be giving up on those saccharide cereals any time shortly.

UPDATE: They found some of my leftover cookies from CookieCon and have started eating those for breakfast instead.

Step by step decorated sugar cookie tutorial for textured fall leaf sugar cookies

How to make parchment textured Autumn leaf decorated sugar cookies:

Step 1.

With a medium consistency brown royal icing and a #three tip, pipage a stem down the centre of the cookie. Permit dry for ii hours.

Footstep 2.

Cut squares of parchment newspaper near 3" past 5". Fold each square in half vertically then fold diagonal lines out from the middle of the fold. Crease each fold firmly and then unfold.

Pace 3.

Outline and inundation the rest of the leaf with a medium consistency yellow royal icing and a #3 tip.

Step 4.

Immediately identify the creased parchment foursquare on top of the cookie. Press gently on the surface to shine the icing to the parchment. Permit dry for 3-4 hours.

Step 4.5

When dry, the parchment paper kind of just falls off the surface of the purple icing. You may have to pull it off if y'all take some adept deep creases, but I actually had a hard time KEEPING the parchment on long enough to take a video of the removal. 😂😂