Tutorial - How to Decorate Oriole and Robin Sugar Cookies

Tutorial - How to Decorate Orioles and Robins with Royal Icing

I love the plump shape of the body for these birds!

Would you like to make these birds with me?

Outline the birds.  Allow to dry for a few minutes before flooding.

Flood the head area with one color and the body with another.  Use a toothpick or boo boo stick to feather the icing colors together.

Pipe a beak.

Either:
Immediately drop a black pearl onto the wet icing for an eye.
Or
Pipe a dot of white icing then drop a black pearl into that for the eye.

Once the base icing has had time to dry, pipe wings on top.
To make the feathers:
Pipe lines across the wing.
Using a toothpick or boo boo stick, drag the icing in an upwards direction, through the lines.

Pipe lines for the tail feathers.

Done!

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