How To Decorate A Football Stadium Cookie

Football season is officially here, so let’s celebrate with some decorated football stadium cookies! These sugar cookies taste as good as they look. I’ll take y’all step by step through the process of how to decorate football stadium cookies using two shades of royal icing, rainbow sprinkles, and white sanding sugar.

You’ll start by making a batch of sugar cookies (click here for my no chill cookie dough recipe). After the dough is made, roll the dough out to about a 1/4 inch thickness on to a floured surface using a lightly floured rolling pin. Use a 3 inch cookie cutter to cut out round cookies. Bake the cookies on a sheet pan fitted with a silpat or parchment paper in an oven preheated to 350F for 10-13 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool completely on a wire wrack before decorating.

While your cookies are baking, you will need to make a batch of royal icing. Click here for one of my favorite royal icing recipes. I use Wilton meringue powder to make my royal icing.

Once your royal icing is made, you will need to tint a portion of your icing green for the grass in the stadium. You only need two colors in order to achieve the football stadium cookie design, white icing and green icing. In addition to green and white royal icing, you will need rainbow sprinkles and white sanding sugar.

I use a meat pounder to crush some of the rainbow sprinkles on a paper plate. I don’t crush all the sprinkles, just enough to help the stadium crowd have a little texture.

Now that the cookies are baked and cooled, the icing is made and tinted, and the sprinkles are slightly crushed, we are ready to start the decorating process. You will start by piping a half circle with white icing onto the cookie. Then, you will flood the piped half circle with white icing.

After the half circle is piped and flooded with white icing, gently press the cookie into the rainbow sprinkles to completely coat the half circle.

After the crowd in the stadium has been created, allow the cookie to set for at least an hour or up to overnight before adding the green icing to the cookie. Pipe a half circle of green icing onto the cookie. Make sure the green half circle is flush to the stadium crowd. Then flood the half circle with green icing.

You will need white sanding sugar to press the green portion into, before you add yard lines to the cookie.

Use a tooth pick to press 6 yard lines into the green half circle that has been gently pressed in sanding sugar.

After the yard lines are pressed into the green portion of the cookie, use a piping bag filled with white icing to draw yard lines onto the cookie. After the yard lines are drawn, pipe a 5 and a 0 around the 50ft yard line.

Allow the icing on the cookies to set completely before serving. These football stadium cookies are so much fun to make and are sure to be a hit at your next tailgate!

-XOXO-

Sally