Llama and Cactus Sugar Cookie decorating step by step guide

I made these cookies for the Fun and Colourful Llama Themed Party Make, cut and bake your sugar cookies. If you need a good sugar cookie recipe, I recommend this vanilla sugar cookie and royal icing recipe. You will need a llama and cactus cutter as well.

What you will need:

• Baked sugar cookies, allow to cool before decorating
• Royal icing
• Gel colours – (llama : pink, purple, orange, green, blue and yellow)
• Gel colours – (cactus : light green, dark green, brown)
• Scribe or tooth pick (used to smooth out icing)
• Tipless piping bags
• Paint brush

Llama sugar cookie decorating guide

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1. Colour your royal icing with gel colours and bag each into piping bags. You will need pink, purple, orange, green, blue and yellow. I used tooth paste consistency to make the ruffles.
2. Cut the bag in a slanted angle /
3. Pipe each colour in a row in a zig zag pattern.
4. Allow to dry for at least 8-12 hours depending on the humidity.

Cactus sugar cookie decorating guide

• Colour your royal icing with gel colours and bag each into piping bags. You will need lime/mint green, dark green, brown gel colours. I use one consistency for outlining and flooding, which is between tooth paste and flood consistency. I used the same royal icing to create the flowers.

1. Outline the pot with brown icing and flood the top part of the pot.
2. Outline the cactus with both the lighter green and dark green.
3. Flood the lighter green areas of the cactus as indicated.
4. To the lighter green add stripes with the dark green.
5. Flood the bottom of the pot with brown.
6. Flood the darker green areas of the cactus as indicated.
7. To the dark green add stripes with the lighter green. Allow to dry/crust for 5 min.
8. Using the lighter icing, add V like shapes to the cactus.
9. Using the brown, pipe a squiggle onto the bottom of the pot as indicated.
10. Using a paint brush, dab the icing around to create a texture effect.
11. Pipe flowers using the left over icing from the llama cookie and finish off with a dot in the centre or place a round sprinkle instead.
12. Allow to dry for at least 8-12 hours depending on the humidity.