Kids' birthday cake ideas: Sheriff badges

Materials:

• baked sugar cookies (in assorted star shapes)
• yellow-tinted royal icing
• black food colouring pen
• yellow chocolate candies

Directions:

1. Dip the flat surface of one side of each cookie into the royal icing. Pull the cookie up and let excess icing drip back into the bowl. Lay dry-side down on a rack.

2. Immediately place a chocolate candy at each star point. Let royal icing dry completely, preferably overnight. When icing is dry, use the food colouring pen to write names on each cookie.

A version of this article appeared in the March 2014 issue of Today's Parent.

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