Easy Rose Cookies (Buttercream Frosting)
Easy rose cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. These soft sugar cookies are piped with pink buttercream frosting to look like elegant roses. No mold required.
Servings: 36 Cookies
Calories: 105kcal
Ingredients
- 1 batch Soft sugar cookies
- 4 cups Buttercream frosting Colored pink with gel food coloring. Flavor with 2 teaspoon rose water instead of vanilla extract if you like.
Instructions
- Make a batch of my soft sugar cookies.
- Allow them to cool to room temperature.
- While the cookies are baking and cooling, prepare buttercream frosting and color it pink with gel food coloring.
- Fill a piping bag with this icing and attach the large star tip (Wilton tip 1M).
- Hold piping bag at a 90 degree angle in the center of the cookie and gently start squeezing your bag while moving your hand clockwise in a full continuous circle until the entire top is iced and covered and looks like a buttercream rose. Enjoy.
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Notes
- To stay true to the rose theme, you can add rose water in the sugar cookie dough and even in the buttercream frosting.
- Please don't use liquid food coloring to tint the icing because it can thin out the frosting and make it runny. Use gel food coloring.
- Do not decorate warm cookies or else the icing will melt and make a sticky mess.
- Icing should be medium firm in consistency to help you pipe the best floral design that holds its shape.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Cookies can be stored in a cookie jar at room temperature for up to 3 days or refrigerated in a sealed container for up to 5 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 105kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 0.001g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 46mg | Potassium: 9mg | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 0.02IU | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 0.04mg