Dinosaur Skeleton Cookies

These dino-mite Dinosaur Skeleton Cookies are decorated using royal icing for a fun treat that’s perfect for dinosaur-themed birthday parties. Start with our delicious roll-out sugar cookie dough recipe, then use icing colors to tint your icing in shades of green and orange. Finally, use white royal icing to pipe on the dinosaur bones and you’ve got a tasty treat (almost) too cute to eat. Since royal icing dries hard, you can also package these cookies in gift bags to hand out as party favors to family and friends.

Prep4 hr 10 min
Total Time16 hr 20min

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Bake Cookies. Prepare cookie dough following recipe instructions. Using dinosaur-shaped cutters, cut out cookies. Bake and cool.
Tint Icing. Prepare royal icing following recipe instructions. Reserve ¼ cup icing white. Divide remaining icing into three equal portions.
Tint one portion icing each light and dark green using color combinations provided
Using Orange icing color, tint 1 portion icing orange.
Thin light green, dark green and orange royal icing to count 20 (flood consistency). Leave white icing at stiff consistency.
Decorate cookies. Prepare three decorating bags with couplers. Fill separately with light green, dark green and orange icing. Attach tip 3 to bags.
Attach tip 3 to light green, dark green and orange bags.
Using light green, dark green and orange icing, ice cookies. Let dry at room temperature, at least 8 to 10 hours or overnight.
Prepare decorating bag with tip 1 and white icing. Pipe bones on cookies. Let dry.
Decorate cookies. Using black marker, draw face on each bunny cookie.