The first step on your journey to cookie-decorating mastery is learning how to throw together a simple royal icing — the next is learning how to turn it into border and flood icing. Border icing ...

Royal icing is easy to make ... Add food coloring gel as desired, scoop into a piping bag, and decorate. When flooding cookies, I start by outlining the cookies, then moving inward around the ...

Remove from the oven and cool for at least 30 minutes before icing. Transfer a few tablespoons of the royal icing to a small ... the edges of the heart shaped cookies. Set them aside to dry.