How to Decorate Saint Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies
What you’ll need to decorate your own Saint Patrick’s day sugar cookies.
- Cut out sugar cookies. (Get the recipe here!)
- Royal Icing in various colors (Get the recipe here!)
- Shamrock cookie cutter
- Rainbow cookie cutter
- Pot of Gold cookie cutter

How to decorate shamrock cookies.
Step 1.
Outline and flood your shamrock cookies. You can add sprinkles immediately after flooding for extra color and texture!
Don’t know what it means to outline and flood? Learn the basics of cookie decorating here!

How to make a pot of gold decorated sugar cookie.
Step 1.
Outline and fill the pot in black. I used a thicker consistency icing to give the bowl more texture.
Learn more about royal icing consistencies in this post!
Step 2.
After letting the black icing dry for about 30 minutes, outline and fill the top of the cookie with gold royal icing. Immediately after flooding your cookie with gold royal icing, sprinkle with gold sprinkles.


How to decorate rainbow cookies.
Step 1.
With thick consistency icing, pipe big dots of icing to look like clouds each end of the rainbow cookie.
Learn how to get thick consistency icing here!

Step 2.
Outline and flood two sections of your rainbow cookie with two royal icing colors of your choice. Make sure they are not touching or they will run together. Let these sections dry for about 30 minutes before adding more colors.

Step 3.
Outline and fill in left over cookie sections to complete your rainbow!

And there ya go! Easy delicious Saint Patrick’s day sugar cookies. I hope you enjoy making them and eating them!!
Happy decorating!
~Nicole
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