Ruffled Flamingo Cookies

These fun summer cookies are ready to fla-mingle! Great for birthday celebrations or summer retirement parties, these Ruffled Flamingo Cookies have just the right amount of sweetness and sass! Ice your homemade roll-out cookies with a cool aqua blue buttercream, then use round and petal piping tips to create a fun flamingo design on each treat. A simple decorating project for beginners, these summer cookies are just the pop of pink your party needs!

Prep1 hr 15 min
Total Time3 hr
Skill LevelIntermediate

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Bake cookies. Prepare cookie dough following recipe instructions. Roll out and cut cookies using straight side of largest cut-out from set (“A” cut-out). Bake and cool.
Tint buttercream. Tint 1 cup buttercream aqua blue using color combination provided. Combine Teal and Kelly Green icing colors to get aqua blue color shown.
Using Pink icing color, tint 1 cup buttercream pink. Using Black icing color, tint 1/4 cup buttercream black. Reserve remaining buttercream white.
Prepare 3 decorating bags with couplers. Fill separately with pink, black and white buttercream. Attach tips: tip 8 on pink, tip 1 on black, tip 2 on white.
Decorate cookies. Spatula ice top of cookies smooth using 9 in. angled spatula and aqua blue buttercream.
Using pink buttercream, pipe flamingo’s head, neck and body.
Switch pink bag to tip 101s; using ruffle technique, pipe feathers on body of flamingos.
Switch pink bag to tip 2; pipe legs and dots around the cookie.
Using white buttercream, pipe first half of beak.
Using black buttercream, pipe tip of beak and eyes.