Buttercream Flower Baby Shower Cookies
These cookies feature buttercream flowers piped onto sugar cookies, suitable for a baby shower celebration. They offer a handcrafted, heartfelt touch to your dessert table.
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Electric mixer
- Piping bags
- Star piping tips
Ingredients
For the Buttercream Frosting
- 1 cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- As needed food coloring various colors
For Assembly
- 1 batch sugar cookies prepared and cooled
Instructions
- Use an electric mixer to beat the softened butter, powdered sugar, and milk together until the mixture is light and fluffy. This forms your base buttercream.
- Divide the buttercream frosting into smaller bowls based on how many colors you plan to use for your flowers.
- Add food coloring to each portion of frosting and mix until the desired shades are achieved.
- Transfer the colored frostings into piping bags fitted with star tips.
- Pipe small flower shapes directly onto the surface of your cooled sugar cookies.
- Allow the frosting to set before serving or packaging the cookies.
Notes
By Grace Williams, contributor at Recipes by Betty.