Penguin Sugar Cookies

For these penguin sugar cookies, I used an egg-shaped cookie cutter. You only need black, white and orange for this simple penguin design.

Pipe a white belly for the penguin.  Allow the white to dry and then pipe and flood the black body of the penguin.

As long as the penguins are drying, pipe some white circles and smaller black circles to use as the penguins' eyes.  You can place the eyes while the black royal icing is still wet on the penguin or attach later with a small dab of icing or frosting.

Place the eyes.

Pipe orange beaks.  If you are using the penguins soon, you can pipe with frosting in a Ziploc (which is less work than prepping the royal icing).  If not serving immediately, the oil in the frosting will bleed the colors beneath.

That's all there is to it!  Soft sugar cookies with sweet crunchy icing.