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The holiday season is a time for gathering with loved ones, and there’s no better way to celebrate than with festive, colorful, holiday desserts! Whether you’re baking for family gatherings or holiday parties, adding a touch of vibrant color can make your creations stand out. Here at The Sugar Art, we specialize in products that bring desserts to life, with edible glitters, luster dusts, and rich food coloring options. This guide will share our top tips, product recommendations, and decorating ideas to inspire your holiday desserts and baking adventures!
Best Holiday Desserts, Christmas Cookies
Add Holiday Cheer with Vibrant Food Colors
From classic sugar cookies to elegant macarons, cookies are a holiday favorite. Adding vibrant colors can turn simple cookies into eye-catching treats that look as good as they taste. Our Gel Colors and Master Elite Powders are a go-to for achieving intense shades without affecting your dough’s consistency.
Tips & Tricks:
- Using Vibrant Gel Colors: Our new gel colors are impeccable for royal icing! They are up to 5x's more pigmented than all other gels on the market, so you need much less to achieve medium to dark tones! The colors on your Christmas Cookies will POP when using The Sugar Art Gel Colors (click here)!
- Holiday Cookie Inspiration: We love decorating simple royal icing cookies year after year, and with our vibrant gel colors - you can make simple designs shine so bright! Check out this full blog: Decorating Ideas For Christmas Cookies!
- Other cookie ideas: We also share our favorite Gingerbread Cookie Recipe here and you can even do a more non-traditional Holly Wreath "Cookie" that only involves marshmallows and cornflakes! Be sure to try our Emerald Gel Color for this tutorial, though!
Christmas Cakes & Cupcakes
We've got Peppermint Cupcakes, Fun Christmas Light Topper Demo AND a Delicious Red Velvet Cake Recipe!
No holiday desserts table is complete without a centerpiece dessert, and cakes or cupcakes are perfect for this role. We love so many cake flavors for the holidays, but our top two favorites are Peppermint and Red Velvet! Check out these two blogs below for some delicious and FREE Christmas Cake Recipes:
Add a hint of glamour to your treats with our Edible Glitter and Luster Dust to your cakes and cupcakes, too! These products are easy to apply and add a sparkle that’ll make your holiday desserts look magical.
Tips For Fun Christmas Cakes:
- Vibrant Red is a MUST: Whether you use our Red Rose Master Elite (dry food coloring) or our Red Rose Gel Color (still as pigmented!) you cannot leave TheSugarArt.Com without trying one or both! We recommend starting with the Gel Color, it's easier to use:
Red Gel Food Color
$5.00
Vibrant Red Gel Food Coloring For Cakes and Cookies This Red Gel Food Color is the most intense red food color for your cakes and cookies! Achieve a vast array of tones from just one bottle of these gel colors… read more
- Fun Cupcake Design: Make a Christmas Tree Cupcake with an ice cream cone! Ed walks you through step by step how to make this happen, and we admit - this is pretty epic and the PERFECT cupcake to add loads of Edible Glitter to!
- Edible Glitter: No Holiday Desserts table is complete without GLITTERING confections! Edible Glitter is so easy for cakes, cookies and any other dessert you make! Sprinkle edible glitter on frosted cupcakes or cakes for an effortless yet festive touch. The butter inside of your buttercream icing will help it adhere perfects, so just spray it DRY! Spray bottles are the easiest to use, too.
White Edible Glitter Large Spray Bottle
$25.00
Our White Diamond Edible Glitter Spray Bottle is amazing for food and drinks! Best prices on the best edible glitter for all of your cakes, cookies and desserts! This perfect edible white glitter is a very fine dust, tasteless and… read more
- Luster Dust Accents: Brush gold or silver luster dust on fondant decorations for an elegant, holiday-inspired finish. For a complete guide, visit Decorating A Christmas Gift Box Cake with Luster Dust.
- Cake Topper Accents: Making Cake Toppers is super fun and instantly brings the holiday vibes! Check out this detailed tutorial by Ed Frys below on taking chocolate and fondant, and making edible Christmas Lights for your cupcakes, cakes, or any holiday desserts idea!
Christmas Cake Pops
Enhance Cake Pops with The Sugar Art’s Chocolate Colors
For those who love making chocolate treats and cake pops, The Sugar Art has options to make these treats look as vibrant and eye-catching as they taste. Our chocolate coloring products are specifically designed to maintain the smoothness and consistency of chocolate while adding bold, beautiful colors.
Below is our favorite and very comprehensive Christmas Tree Cakesicle Blog! You will learn how to make simple cakesicles for Christmas, and how to temper chocolate to boot! We walk you through all the steps to make vibrant Christmas Cake Pops for your friends and family.
Pro Tips:
- Using Chocolate Colors For White Chocolate: Our chocolate coloring is ideal for cake pops, truffles and all chocolate desserts! These intense chocolate colors make it easy to achieve deep reds, greens, and blues. Discover more tips in our blog, All About Our Choc-Elite Colors!
- Chocolate Dipped Oreos for Christmas! Have you tried chocolate dipped Oreos for your holiday desserts table? We have a full tutorial on how to make them absolutely perfect with our Oreo Mold, too! Add some extra pizazz by making little fondant decorative pieces!
- Holiday Truffles Inspiration: Create colorful chocolate truffles using red, white, and green colors, or use edible glitter to add a festive sparkle to your candies. Here's an excellent Christmas Truffles tutorial:
Macaron Christmas Tree
Master Elite Food Colors are EXCELLENT for Macarons.
For those who love macarons, we've got loads of amazing tutorials just for you! Click here for all of the Macaron Blogs :)
For Christmas, we recommend checking out this fun Macaron Christmas Tree Tutorial! You'll learn how our Master Elites are the perfect food coloring for macarons, and also how to make and assemble a full Macaron Christmas Tree!
Pro Tips:
- Using Dry Food Coloring: Our Master Elite Food Colorings are perfect for that tricky macaron batter! Because they are dry food colors, they will not affect the integrity of the batter itself. However, keep in mind, you must activate the color in order to see their True Tone! Don't be alarmed when you see a different color in the jar. Activating the color in Macarons is done by incorporating them in with the Egg Whites. Check out this blog for a full tutorial on Master Elites in Macarons (click here).
- You can use Gel Colors for Macarons, too! In this blog Jyoti goes over both Master Elite Food Colors and Gels for macarons! It's a perfect side by side demonstration on the benefits of both.
Conclusion
This holiday season, elevate your desserts with vibrant colors and shimmering finishes. With The Sugar Art’s range of food colorings, edible glitters, and luster dusts, your holiday treats can be as festive as they are delicious. Explore our website to find the perfect products for your holiday baking, and let us help you create memories that last a lifetime.
Start shopping now to find everything you need to create colorful, unforgettable holiday desserts!
