I recently made these fun beer mug sugar cookies, and realized I needed an accompaniment to them to balance out all that beer! So I thought and puzzled for a while, and decided on this fun and simple plaid design of green, gold, and white. Something great about this particular creation is that you can make a ton of them in about an hour, with no drying time in between colors. Are you ready to get your plaid on?
There’s just a few things you’ll need to make these cookies as I have them photographed here.
- The most important component is an airbrush- you can click here to learn all about how to airbrush and why this little machine is such a fun and vital part of any decorator’s arsenal! If you don’t have an airbrush handy yet, you can skip the airbrush step or approximate the design with some food grade markers.
- If you’re using your airbrush, you will also need the plaid stencil and a stencil holder as described in the airbrush posing linked above. These are cheap tools that you will find yourself using over and over, so they’re worth the time to pick up.
- A batch of sugar cookies! Use my recipe here or one of your favorites.
- A round cookie cutter- I am using a 3″ round in the photos featured here.
- White royal icing to flood your cookies. If you need flooding help, check out my guide!
- Green and yellow royal icing at piping consistency. Make a batch of royal icing as outlined here, and split it between the two colors. Use #1 tips on both of your decorating bags.
Let’s get started!
Begin by flooding all your circles with the white icing and allow time for them to set up- about 2 hours under a counter top fan should be fine. Secure your plaid stencil in the stencil holder and place it over your flooded cookie. Fill your airbrush pen with gold coloring and gently spray the stencil to create the plaid pattern on your cookie surface.
Now grab your green royal icing. For step 2, pipe two pairs of lines in the middle of the cookie, one pair on each of the two stenciled columns. Turn your cookie on its side and pick up your yellow royal icing bag. To create step 3, perform the same step as with the green and pipe two pairs of yellow lines, crossing over the green.
Step four means turning your cookie so the green lines are vertical again. Use your yellow icing to draw a line between the two green pairs. After that, turn your cookie back the other way and pipe a final green line in the middle of the cookie, plus two small green lines on the ends of the cookie.
And there you have it! Plaid cookies! You can change the colors up to make any plaid combination you want- I used green and yellow/gold for St. Patrick’s Day, but you could use red and black for buffalo plaid, or even make a Scottish tartan in whatever clan colors you choose! (If you’re digging those beer mug cookies, you can find out how to make them here!) Make sure to visit me in the comments and let me know how these turned out for you, or to ask me any questions that you might have. Happy decorating!
