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Decorating Cookies with Morgan Webber of The Sugary Cookie

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  Easy peasy to decorate like a pro.

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  Morgan Webber

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  The Smush Test - how Morgan can tell that a cookie is as soft as it should be and the icing is tender enough to bite through

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  Step 1: With the top of the tree closest to you, pipe 5 dollops outline icing in a row along bottom edge.

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  Step 2: Using palette knife or popsicle stick, press into each dollop and pull toward yourself. Repeat.

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  Step 3: Repeat for entire cookie, making one less dollop in each row.

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  Step 4: Fill in trunk of tree with vertical lines of icing, moving piping forward and back.

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  Step 1: Fill plate with one color flood icing.

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  Step 2: Using another color, pipe vertical lines on top of base color. With third color, pipe horizontal lines on top of both.

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  Step 3: Place cookie on top of icing, tapping down on all edges.

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  Step 4: Gently, but with a firm grasp on cookie, lift out of icing. Let icing drip a few seconds.

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  Step 5: Viola! Place on cookie sheet to dry.