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We’re here to decorate! Your cookies are baked, your colors are mixed, and by this time your patience is wearing thin—but you’ve made it! Let’s learn how to decorate. We’re going to dive into all the basics. Really master this chapter before moving on to the next chapters, which full of fun designs. Add a bookmark, because you will be referring back to this chapter often!

All those colors you worked so hard to mix? Let’s put them to work!

•Snip a small hole in the tip of your tipless piping consistency bags. Give them a test on a flat paper towel for easy cleanup. You are trying to achieve about the thickness of a permanent marker line.

•Snip off more of the bag if the hole is too small. If the hole is too big, transfer the icing into a new bag and try again! The flood consistency bags should be snipped to a width about twice the size of the holes for the piping consistency bags.

•Once you get a sense of how large the hole should be, you’ll be doing this in your sleep, because you repeat this process on every. Single. Bag!

Before you dive right into those cookies you spent all that time baking, let’s get some practice on some paper. I know, I know—BORING—but this is a great place to get some practice in without wasting your cookies. Can I suggest making a copy of the template to practice on? Place the template on a cookie sheet and cover it with plastic wrap; this allows you to throw away the plastic wrap when completed and start again fresh without printing out a million copies.