Winter Sweater Sugar Cookies

Sweater Cookies. Searching for some winter cookie inspiration?! Look no further than these delightful little white on white cookie cable knit sweaters and mittens!

These simple beauties are made possible with royal icing and your favourite sugar cookie or gingerbread cookie. I have a couple sweater cookie cutters and even a toque cookie cutter just perfect for these moments and couldn’t resist throwing in a couple of mug topping mittens too. And well a couple snowflakes snuck in there for good measure too.

White on White Cable Knit Pattern

Such a fun wintery white on white theme for these cookies. Also the white pattern on a white background is wonderfully forgiving too. It also requires no food dyes or colouring, removing one more step.

I enjoyed the contrast of the darker gingerbread cookie showing around the edges of some. However they are great made with sugar cookie too!

Sweater Cookies

These cookies can definitely be done is stages over a couple days too. Both sugar cookies and gingerbread bake up great ahead time. And sometimes I will flood and fill all the cookies the night or day before. Leaving them out on the counter overnight to dry. That was I can be really certain the base is solid and dry before adding any details the next day.

Tipless Piping Bags

When doing tiny details like these cookies have using tip-less piping bags (like these ones from Amazon) work best. You will also need to allow the cookies to harden or crust over once flooded before beginning on the details.

I had fun playing around with different patterns and ideas. It definitely worked better to have a very tiny tip cut off the bags. And the consistency has to be thick enough to hold its shape. I used one bag with a thicker icing and a slighter larger opening. And a second bag with a slightly thinner consistency for the tiny detail work, depending what look I was going for.