What could be a better treat than a melt in your mouth buttery Mardi Gras Sugar Cookies?

These cookies make a great cookie treat for your Mardi Gras celebration. They are fun for kids to help with decorating.

WARNING: These cookies are additive. You can not eat just one. Thankfully, my Flavorful Sugar Cookies makes up a few dozen even though the Mardi Gras cookies are larger than many cookies.

How to Remove the Stress from Making Mardi Gras Sugar Cookies

Usually, I make my cookies in stages. Instead of trying to make them all in one day, I break the different steps up and it decreases the stress of working at it all day. Doing this will keep the kitchen clean with the minimal needed items, breaks the time up into managable short segments that work with your busy schedule, and actually produces prettier cookies with the wait time.

How to Make the Cookies over 3 days

I say three days, but actually they will be ready on day 4. There is 3 days of active working on them before you can serve them. The royal icing needs time to completely dry. If you complete the construction on day 3, the cookies will be ready to serve the next day. So, if I want to have the cookies on Saturday, I will count Wednesday as day one, Thursday as day 2, and Friday as day three.

Day One of Three

Make up your Royal Icing and place it in an airtight container. Check out the Easy To Work With Royal Icing recipe. You can add the coloring to the icing ahead of time, or as you need the color. If I know in advance what colors I am going to use, like with theses awesome Mardi Gras Sugar Cookies, I will place about a cup of royal icing into plastic containers equal to the number of colors needed. For these Mardi Gras Sugar Cookies, I placed a cup of royal icing in 3 containers and colored one yellow, one green and the last one purple.

Make up your cookie dough . Here is my Flavorful Sugar Cookies recipe. After making the cookie dough, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it.

Decide if you are going to use cookie cutters or trace and cut out an imagine on paper to use as a template for your cookies.

Day Two of Three

Remove your cookie dough from the refrigerator and allow it come up in temperature so you can roll it out. I recommend cutting the dough into quarters and working with a quarter of the dough at a time. This way, you can knead the quarter piece of dough in your hands and not have to wait the time it would take for the large piece of dough to warm up enough to be used.

Preheat the oven. Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Roll the dough out onto a floured work surface. Cut out your cookies and bake. You can bake all the dough or just a portion of it. The cookie dough will last in the refrigerator for about a week or it can be placed in the freezer for 3 months.

If the cookies are going to use multiple colors of royal icing or layered colors, you can begin with the first color today after the cookies have cooled.

Pictured above is the application of the white color icing for the additional colors to be layered the next day. If layering colors, the under color icing needs to be dry before adding the next color or they will run together.

Pictured above is an example of applying the white icing and outline it in the secondary color after a few hours when the white icing had time to set. The icing will not dry unless about 6- 8 hours as passed.

Day Three

On day three the layered colored icing cookies can be completed. The surface icing is completely dry after sitting up overnight.

How to Make the Cookies over 2 Days

Day One

Make up your Royal Icing and place it in an airtight container. Check out the Easy To Work With Royal Icing recipe. Place about a cup of royal icing in a plastic containers equal to the number of colors needed. For these Mardi Gras Sugar Cookies, I placed a cup of royal icing in 3 containers and colored one yellow, one green and the last one purple.

Make up your cookie dough. Here is my Flavorful Sugar Cookies recipe. After making the cookie dough, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it.

Decide if you are going to use cookie cutters or trace and cut out an imagine on paper to use as a template for your cookies.

Remove your cookie dough from the refrigerator. I recommend cutting the dough into quarters and working with a quarter of the dough at a time. This way, you can knead the quarter piece of dough in your hands and not have to wait for the large piece of dough to warm up.

Preheat the oven. Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Roll the dough out onto a floured work surface. Cut out your cookies and bake. You can bake all the dough or just a portion of it. The cookie dough will last in the refrigerator for about a week or it can be placed in the freezer for 3 months.

If the cookies are going to use multiple colors or layered colors, you can begin with the first color today after the cookies have cooled.

Apply the first layer of icing and allow the cookies to set for several hours before continuing with your decorating. The under layer needs to be set.

Day Two

Apply the second layer of royal icing and set aside to dry. Several hours will need to pass before the cookies will be set enough to serve.

All In One Day

You can make your cookies all in one one, but there will be several period of time that you will be waiting to do the next step. Start early, if you want to make and decorate your cookies all in day.

Cookies make a great treat for a Mardi Gras celebration and so do King Cakes. Check out the King Cake- Mardi Gras Celebration recipe.

Cheers…..Happy Baking!