I have made a tutorial inspired by the ballerina cookies that I made last year. These sweet ballerina cookies are perfect for a ballet or dress up party. You could use the tutu cookies as pretty gowns instead. Wrap a single cookie in a cellophane bag for a sweet party favor. I hope that you will enjoy my ballerina cookie tutorial.
This is what I use:
Cookie template: Ballet
Tip: For a more stronger cookie template, transfer or glue the paper cookie template onto strong craft paper
Vanilla sugar cookie dough or your own favourite cookie recipe
Small sharp knife
Wooden dowel, for making the hole in the ballerina cookie shoe
Royal Icing
Food gel color. I have used Pink from Sugar Flair
Piping bag with plastic coupler
Round piping tube no. 2
Plastic squeeze bottle
Small thin brush
Small amount of water in a cup
Satin ribbon in coordinating color for the ballerina cookie shoe
Cocktail stick
For the cookies:
Step 1:
Roll out the cold cookie dough on a piece of parchment paper lightly sprinkled with flour. Cut out the cookies using a small sharp knife and transfer the cookies to a baking sheet with parchment paper. Bake the cookies as directed in the recipe.
Step 2:
When the cookies are baked, take a wooden sharp dowel and carefully make a hole in the ballerina cookie shoe for the ribbon. Let the cookies cool comepletely on a cooling rack.
Step 3:
Color the royal icing in your choosen color. I have used the same color for both outlining and flooding. Take about 4-5 tbsp of royal icing and make it soft peak consistency by adding few drops of water. Fill it into the piping bag with a no. 2 round piping tube. Next take 1/2 cup of the colored royal icing and mix it slowly with drops of water to a runny consistency. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rest.
Ballerina cookie shoe:
Step 1:
Outline the cookie shoe with the soft royal icing. Use the brush and a little water to “push down” any small peaks.
Step 2:
Carefully stir the runny royal icing, to eliminate air bubbles and fill a squeeze bottle with the runny icing. Flood the ballerina shoe. Use a cocktail stick to “pop” any air bubbles while the icing is still wet.
Let the cookie dry (best overnight) before moving on with the next step.
Step 3:
Pipe a small bow with some soft peak royal icing on the cookie shoe and let it dry.
Step 4:
Finish the ballerina cookie shoe by adding satin ribbon.
Ballerina Tutu cookies:
Step 1:
Outline the tutu’s with the soft royal icing. Use the brush and a little water to “push down” any small peaks.
Step 2:
Flood the tutu’s and use a cocktail stick to “pop” any air bubbles while the icing is still wet. Let the cookies dry (best overnight) before moving on with the next step.
Step 3:
Decorate the tutu’s with soft peak royal icing and let them dry.
Tip: Give your ballerina cookies a little more sparkle by using edible glitter on the wet royal icing, when you pipe the decorations on the dry flooded cookies.
Happy Caking!
Louise
Where I can get a Cookie template for this?
Hello,
I really love these cookies and would love to make it for my daughter. I tried the link but Page Not Found. Is it possible to email me the link? Thank you.
I cannot download the cookie template. It says file not found
Hi I love this idea!
I was just wondering how thick you roll your dough out to?
Beautiful!!! Im going to try to make this cookies for my little girls ballerina party,
thanks for the idea.
I have tried to download the zip file for the template and it says it’s invalid. I’m not sure if it’s something on my end or in the zip file. Any way to upload it as a pdf file?
I need to take cookies to a ballerina themed party for little girls next weekend… Im not much of a baker, and even less of a decorator, but I have to give this a try! Its so precious looking!!!
Hi, I am planning to make these for my daughter’s birthday but I can’t open the template. Does the link still work ??? Any chance you could send me the file via email please ? Thank you very much for this tutorial.
Virginie
thatcutelittlecake {at} talktalk {dot} net
I’m so sorry for the late reply but you should have been able to open the link. Click on link and the choose “open with” and not save file.
Hi there! Your lovely post has been featured on my blog:
https://mijbilcreatures.blogspot.it/2012/04/easter-diy-tutorials-part-1.html
Thanks for sharing your gorgeous cookies! 🙂
Oh my gosh I love this! These ballerina cookies would make the perfect touch for my daughters birthday! Can you please send me a link for the ballet cookie template? The link provided gives you an error message and says the page can not be found.
Hi there, I have fixed the download link to a zip file, so it should be working now.
These cookies are amazing. I am so inspired to decorate them, maybe will do something for the holidays. Something simple though. Love these!
hi Louise,
Your blog is so awesome! What I want to ask is that whether your decorated cookies are still crispy after you decorated them or they are a bit soft?
I don’t think that they are soft. They are nice and crunchy. The cookie close to the icing may be a little softer but not much. I like the way they taste and crunch.
beautiful work…..thanks
thanks so much i have never know what is meant by ‘flodding’ but you explain it well! I have always been more into rough and ready but yummy, I think it’s time I moved onto more refined things!
Everything you do is so clean and impressive. These cookies are so beautiful!
I like how you added the ribbon. You could even hang it up 🙂
That is adorable.
Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing this with us, these are precious!
These are so pretty. I should try to make these for whem my daugther has her recital. I think her friends would love them too.
These are so pretty. I should try to make these for whem my daugther has her recital. I think her friends would love them too.
incredible..love it!!!!!
So girlie and pretty! Thanks for sharing!
Hey Louise, I made some of these last year in October! They did not look quite as good as yours, but they were pretty cute, and I got a lot of compliments. Thanks very much for the idea. 🙂
No, as long as you use a quite cold dough and roll it onto parchment paper it is very easy to cut out the cookies. You can smooth any rough edges with your fingers.
Thank you so much for sharing and teaching 🙂 I always mess up the sugar cookies.
1) Could you tell me a trick to move the excess dough away and lifting the cut cookie to the sheet without it loosing its form. Mine always looka bit wonky and the edges are never as sharp. Is my dough not chilled enough?
2) How thick should the dough be once rolled out?
3) Once I cut out all the shapes and re-knead all the scraps should I chill the dough before rolling it again?
These are so pretty I want to make it for my friends daughter. She loves ballet 🙂
xoxo
1. Always roll out the cookie dough on parchment paper. Use the parchment paper to flip the cookie into your hand and then onto the baking sheet. You can get the idea form here: https://cakejournal.com/archives/how-to-make-a-cookie-lolly It’s important that the dough is quite cold. Roll out a smaller portion at a time. If the cut out cookie have a rough edge you can either trim with the knife or smooth with your fingers.
2. The cookie dough should be 5mm.
3. I re-roll the scraps max. 2 times then I chill again.
Hi Louise…as always beautiful work. Where can I find those Plastic squeeze bottle you use?, I normally use the plastic bag but when my boys want to decorate then desaster happens…they burst the bag or the icing comes from the top of the bags….thank you
You cna get them from Karen Cookies https://www.karenscookies.net/2-ounce-Squeeze-Bottle-with-Coupler-2-pack_p_1165.html It comes in a 8 ounce too, but I find that too big. But its great if you need to decorated LOTS of cookies in the same color.
Thanks ; )
These are really sweet. Judging from the undecorated slipper cookie it would turn out so beautifully. Thank you!
Simply adorable.
You can let the flooded cookies dry under a architects lamp.
GORGEOUS! Love the ribbon on the shoe!
Those are beautiful. I can never get my royal icing to taste good. Any suggestions? What recipe do you use?
I use a royal icing that calls for egg whites (pasteurized), powdered sugar and lemon juice. There are a link to it in the post.