One important phase of making cookies is decorating because by using your unique style of cookie decoration, you make them special.

Cookie decorating ideas are as important as the art of making them. Some simple cookies decorating ideas make your preparation more attractive and tasty without adding much cost.

Before applying cookie decorating ideas, you need a smooth canvas. In evenly iced cake, you get a blank canvas to be decorated with your ideas.

Most of the cookie decorating ideas are based on using fluffy frosting that is used on first cakes before smooth icings. You can decorate your cookies either with rose flowers or by some beautiful picture made with the help of cake spray paints and stencils.

If you want to avoid using excessive icing, then prefer dark color cookies because these cookies can be decorated without using icing. You can decorate cookies with homemade frosting, grated coconut, shaved chocolate sprinkles, candied red hearts, fine chopped nuts, gumdrops and colored candied sprinkles.

You can use plastic cutters to make deep impressions like Christmas Santa, stars, animals and flowers on the cakes. To make the impressions glittering, you can use color dust, silver beads and icing gel.

By visiting a baking goods store or craft store, you can find many kinds of cake cutters to decorate your cookies according to the theme of occasions. So, it is always better to decorate your cookies according to the occasion.

You can decorate your cookies by making outlines or piping over the icing. To create a crunchy finish, you can use thin icing. To decorate your cookies with Royal Icing made with meringue powder, is also a good cookie decorating idea.

You can attach candies to cookies with a drop of corn syrup after baking. You can paint your cookies by using toothpick or paintbrush.

On the wet frosting base, you can carve out some curved or parallel lines quickly before frosting dries. Draw toothpick or knife tip over the drawn lines to make the second set of perpendicular lines.

Another way to decorate your cookies is to use disposable decorating tube or cone fitted with tiny writing tip. For doing art work on cookie, hold the tube at 45-degree angle and for making dots hold the tube at 90-degree angle.

You can also decorate your cookies before placing them in the oven. You can decorate your cookies with beaten egg paste colored according to your designing concept.