Holiday Cookies

I finally taught myself the "flooding" technique for sugar cookies. You can use any recipe for cut out sugar cookies and royal icing. There's a lot of information online already about this technique so I won't bother going into detail here but I will offer two pieces of advice. One is to place any balls, sprinkles or other decoration quickly after laying down the icing so they stick easily in place. The icing sets very quickly so do it in batches if you have a lot of cookies. Second is, most directions advise you to use a toothpick to help draw the flooded icing into crevices, which is helpful, but I also found that on the larger cookies it was much faster to use a small spoon to spoon out icing into the "arms" of the snowflakes and the use the toothpick to finish off the job.