• elf and santa cookie
• royal icing
• assorted food colors
• parchment triangles
• paint tray

Thin royal icing with water until it smoothes itself in 8 seconds. Use parchment cone to pipe outline and cover each cookie. Allow to completely set, several hours. Thin food colors with a couple drops of water and paint background colors. After those colors have dried use full strength food coloring to paint outlines and details.