Royal icing is the go-to stuff for picture-perfect sugar cookies, because it makes a neat, hard and glossy finish that professional bakers and home chefs love. This icing is rich and thick and may ...

Instructions: Scoop some black icing into a bag and use a No. 2 tip to outline the cats in black. Reserve some black icing in the bag for piping details. Thin the remaining black icing for flooding.

Between roasting potatoes and basting turkeys, it can be easy to forget that you can actually have fun in the kitchen at Christmas. In fact, letting your littles ones run riot with an icing bag might ...