Beach Cookies

For these cute beach themed cookies, I used the Favorite Sugar Cookies recipe.  Making the sand, water, waves, and flip-flops is easy.  I will show how to do the shells in a later post.  Make the icing with the Making Royal Icing recipe.  You will need

• Brown: piping and flood consistency
• Sky Blue: piping and flood consistency
• White: piping consistency
• Yellow: piping consistency
• Pink: *bead consistency
• Brown sanding sugar (You can buy this or make your own with white sanding sugar and food coloring.)
• Two paint brushes (One to brush off the sanding sugar, and one to make the waves.)
• Piping tips: #1, #4, and 2-#3s.

*Bead consistency is between piping and flood consistency.  When you pipe a dot and lift the piping tip, the icing creates a smooth surface.  If it is too thick you will see a point where the icing left off.


1) Start by piping the outline for your sand.

2) Flood with brown.

3) While still wet, dust with brown sanding sugar.

4) Brush off excess sanding sugar with a soft paint brush.

5) Pipe the outer edge of the water.

6) Flood with blue and allow to dry several hours or over night.

7)  With a #4 piping tip, make some squiggles where you want the wave.

8) With a dry paint brush, pull the icing back.

9) Waves can overlap or not, and additional waves can be added as shown here.

10) Draw parallel lines, the width of how long your flip-flops will be, on a piece of paper.  Cover with wax paper and pipe ovals with bead consistency icing.  Allow them to dry for several hours.  When dry, pipe a V shape on top to make the straps of the flip-flops.

11) Peel flip-flops off of wax paper and glue on to sand with brown icing.  How to make shells will be shown in a later post.