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Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies - a step by step tutorial

Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies

Published on June 9, 2017 • Last updated January 28, 2019 by Elizabeth Atia
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Post sponsored byĀ Volkswagen.

Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies - a step by step tutorial

I have fallen in love with the art of decorating sugar cookies!

It is remarkably easy to mix ready made Royal icing powder with water and a little bit of food colouring to decorate the tops of your favourite sugar cookie recipe, and, I have learned recently, the sky is the limit when it comes to technique and what can be done with sugar and water.

Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies - a step by step tutorial

Now I don’t claim to be an expert when it comes to decorating cookies, in fact, I am very much a beginner, but I just had to share with you how easy (and fun!) it is!

When it comes to decorating sugar cookies with Royal icing, you want to start with a cookie base that isn’t too terribly sweet as you’re going to be piling loads of sugar on the top. This sugar cookie base is the perfect base to transport the frosting – it’s sweet, sturdy, and it bakes wonderfully without spreading; a problem found with a lot of sugar cookies.

I’ve added seeds of vanilla pods to the dough to give a lovely flavour and little flecks of seed.

Don’t throw the vanilla pods out, though! When you’ve finished scraping the seeds into the mixture, pop the empty pods into a jar and cover with caster sugar. Stick the jar on a shelf for a few weeks/months and then you’ll have a gorgeously aromatic scented vanilla sugar to work with.

Another clever trick is to freeze the dough before cutting and cooking the cookies. This keeps the dough from spreading, making for the perfect base that can be stored for months if needed.

The fun bit of making sugar cookies is the decorating bit. Invest in some good quality gel colourings as these create some beautifully rich colours. You could go through the effort of making your own Royal icing from scratch – by mixing egg whites with icing powder, but you can just as well buy ready made Royal icing powder which just needs to be mixed with water.

For my Volkswagen set I used six different pastel colours similar to the traditional Volkswagen colour charts I found online.Ā I printed off a Volkswagen logo I’d found online and cut out the middle sections with a Stanley knife so that only the white VW and circle were left. I used this as a template and drew onto the top of the cooled cookie top with a black edible ink pen.

Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies - a step by step tutorial

I do confess that the piping took ages. I spent a good four hours decorating a dozen cookies, but it was a very relaxing and therapeutic four hours.

I started with piping the white logo itself, tracing the black edible ink outline. After this dried, I filled the middles with my chosen colours, as well as piping around the outer edge of the logo.

To make the logo pop out I piped over the white logo again, and I feel this worked rather well. Excuse the lumps and bumps – like I said, I really am a beginner when it comes to sugar craft!

Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies - a step by step tutorial

Still, I’m really rather pleased with how well they turned out. I reckon these would make great edible gifts for any Volkswagen enthusiast. This lot – my children are going to devour them!

For more travel-inspired recipes please visit the Volkswagen Pinterest community board – Food Bloggers for Volkswagen.

Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies - a step by step tutorial

Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies

A Volkswagen logo sugar cookie recipe - an ideal gift for the Volkswagen enthusiast in your life!
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Prep Time: 4 hours
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 1 day 4 hours 15 minutes
Servings: 24 cookies
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

for the sugar cookies

  • 250 grams butter room temperature
  • 180 grams icing sugar sifted
  • 1 medium free-range egg lightly beaten
  • 375 grams plain flour
  • 100 grams cornflour
  • 2 vanilla bean pod seeds only
  • .5 tsp Shetland sea salt

for the Royal Icing

  • 450 grams Royal Icing sugar
  • cold water
  • gel food colourings as desired

equipment needed

  • 2 large airtight food bags 10" x 14" with a grip seal
  • disposable piping bags for each icing colour
  • 1 Number 2 piping nozzle
  • 1 black edible ink pen
  • 1 paper Volkswagen logo template
  • 1 sharp knife
  • 1 round cookie cutter
  • cocktail sticks
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Instructions 

  • Sift the flours and salt together and set aside.
  • Mix the butter, sugar and seeds from the vanilla pods together until thoroughly incorporated, but do not cream the mixture. You don't want to add extra air to the dough.
  • Add the beaten egg to the butter and sugar mixture along with a tablespoonful of the flour. Beat with a wooden spoon until combined.
  • Add half of the flour mixture. With a hand mixer set on the lowest setting, mix until the flour is incorporated. As soon as the flour is mixed in add the rest and mix well, stopping as soon as you can't see any more flour and the dough clumps together. Over mixing will create tough and flaky cookies.
  • Form the dough into a ball and cut into half, forming two discs. Place each half in a grip seal bag and leave in the fridge for 30-60 minutes.
  • Roll out each of the discs to 1/4 inch thickness inside the grip seal bags and place in the freezer, keeping them flat. An ice bank drawer is the perfect size to keep them flat, if you have one. This can be done well in advance.
  • Preheat a fan oven to 155 C and cut circle shapes from the frozen dough. If your cookie cutters are weaker plastic ones, or 3D printed ones, allow the dough to soften for ten minutes before cutting the dough. Place the cut shapes back into the freezer for at least ten minutes to firm up again before baking.
  • Bake the tray of frozen cookies for 15-20 minutes, depending on their size. Mine were 5 cm circles and took 20 minutes. They cookies are ready when their edges turn lightly golden. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
  • To decorate, find a Volkswagen logo online and print off a copy the same size as your cookies. Using a sharp knife (I used a Stanley knife), cut out the inner pieces of the logo so that you can trace the template onto the top of the cookie.
  • Mix the Royal icing powder with a little water to reach a smooth, thick consistency. You don't want it too runny or it won't hold the shape of the logo, but you don't want it too thick either or it won't smooth out enough.
  • Place a few spoonfuls of the white Royal icing into the piping bag fitted with the #2 nozzle and carefully trace out the Volkswagen logo design onto the cookies, following the black edible ink pen template.
  • Add a few more spoonfuls of the white icing to the bag, and set aside.
  • Divide the remaining Royal icing into small bowls depending on the number of colours you want to use.
  • Using a cocktail stick, add the gel food colouring a drop at a time to the Royal icing until the desired colour is reached. Cover each bowl in clingfilm so the icing won't dry out while you work with the rest.
  • Place the colour you are working with into a disposable plastic piping bag and snip off the end leaving a 2 mm sized hole (alternatively, fit with a clean #2 nozzle) and fill the centre pieces of the Volkswagen logo with your desired colour. Pipe a line on the outside of the logo too. Leave to dry for half an hour.
  • Repeat the white Volkswagen logo layer, so it pops out from the cookie. Using a cocktail stick you can make the corners and edges of the logo sharp.
  • Leave overnight to harden completely before gifting.

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  1. Lisa@FreelanceLogoDesign

    October 3, 2017 at 6:26 pm

    OhM My Goodness ! This a a great fun šŸ™‚ I Love this idea.

    It is a creative idea investing in some good quality gel colourings as these create some beautifully rich colours on this logo sugar cookies.

    Great thanks dear, Actually i was in searching google to find out like this exceptional idea X_X

    Reply
  2. Heather Haigh

    August 18, 2017 at 2:01 am

    They look great, I wish I could get mine so neat. And doesn’t the time fly when you ice anything, I take hours and the kitchen looks like chaos and mine still look rubbish lol.

    Reply
  3. fashionandstylepolice

    June 28, 2017 at 9:49 pm

    Love these cookies. You got the design so well.

    Reply
  4. Kate - gluten free alchemist

    June 21, 2017 at 10:43 pm

    Brilliant! These are very very cool….. You are so clever Elizabeth!

    Reply
  5. Esthy

    June 17, 2017 at 8:34 am

    These designs are so beautiful. I really wish I could make them too. I will give it a go though but I am not sure it will turn out as beautiful and tantalising as yours.

    Reply
  6. Kat | Kitty and B

    June 15, 2017 at 9:35 am

    So simple, yet so clever! They look so strikeout and I’m sure they taste good, too!

    Reply
    • Kat | Kitty and B

      June 15, 2017 at 9:40 am

      *striking!

      Reply
  7. Rachel George, Ordinary Hopes

    June 14, 2017 at 4:32 pm

    I love these! We are big VW fans in this family!

    Reply
  8. Jenni

    June 13, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    These look fun! My car-obsessed boy would love them.

    Reply
  9. Helen

    June 13, 2017 at 8:48 am

    What a cute idea and a perfect homemade gift for Father’s Day this weekend šŸ™‚

    Reply
  10. Blair Villanueva

    June 13, 2017 at 5:59 am

    You should approach Volkswagon for collaboration! You did it great and these would be a delight for their guests during launching events!

    Reply
    • Elizabeth

      June 13, 2017 at 7:38 am

      They approached me! šŸ˜‰ But yea, these would make a great treat during a launch!

      Reply
  11. Enricoh Alfonzo

    June 13, 2017 at 1:08 am

    se manifique views and vibes! i love your photo journal and descriptions. hahahah this is sooooo cool! i wanna show it to my vw dealership friend

    Reply
  12. CourtneyLynne

    June 12, 2017 at 10:08 pm

    Omg what cute cookies!!! One of my besties has a VW. She would love these cookies

    Reply
  13. Cynthia Nicoletti

    June 12, 2017 at 6:06 pm

    They looks so great. You did such a wonderful job. The icing has the exact logo.

    Reply
  14. Caitlin

    June 12, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    These are SO cute! I have a friend who loves Volkswagens – these would be right up her alley šŸ™‚

    Reply
  15. Kaitlynn

    June 12, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    these are too cute!! I love decorating sugar cookies as well. I only make them for holidays so I have to keep this post in mind. I never used vanilla pods while cooking, I am curious where I could find some? Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  16. Tia Cox

    June 12, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    Love your images. I must admit that these look like a lot of fun to make!

    Reply
  17. Amanda Love

    June 12, 2017 at 10:20 am

    There are sugar cookie recipes that causes the cookies to spread when baking. I think this one’s worth a try. I love how you decorated it as well. I’m keeping the recipe!

    Reply
  18. Jacki

    June 11, 2017 at 3:13 pm

    These look so cool and seem easy enough to make. I love the colors and love me a good sugar cookie. What a great recommendation and thanks for sharing

    Reply
  19. Lisa @ Lisa 3D

    June 11, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    These are so cute! I love the variety of colors and these sound like they would be delicious too.

    Reply
  20. Mobilepricecomparison

    June 10, 2017 at 4:08 pm

    These looks awesome.

    Reply
  21. sarah

    June 10, 2017 at 6:20 am

    I’d love to see other designs too.

    Reply
  22. Claudia Krusch

    June 10, 2017 at 3:45 am

    I am always looking for new cookie recipes to try. I will have to get the ingredients I need to make these on the weekend. I am sure they will be a big hit.

    Reply
  23. Amber Myers

    June 10, 2017 at 12:37 am

    Oh yum, these cookies do look delicious! You did a great job with them.

    Reply
  24. Team up Girl

    June 9, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    Yay! That’s a cool thing to do šŸ™‚ I bet the kids would love it too (if I had some haha). You are right, the sky is the limit :). The only time of the year when I make myself decorating cookies is Christmas though.

    Reply
  25. Tonya Wilhelm

    June 9, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    Those are really cute. I love the shades you chose and the bite size of the cookie. Great job.

    Reply
  26. Corinne & Kirsty

    June 9, 2017 at 6:28 pm

    Nom nom, they look so good! This is quite creative, I would have never thought of such cookies! I’ll defo try the recipe out! xx corinne

    Reply
  27. Jessica Hughes

    June 9, 2017 at 5:43 pm

    These cookies are so adorable and they look so delicious! You did such a great job recreating the Volkswagen logo and they really do stand out. I love your tip about adding the vanilla bean pods to sugar, I”m going to try that one!

    Reply
  28. Katja

    June 9, 2017 at 3:53 pm

    Oh my goodness how cute are these! My nephew loves cars (and cookies, obvs) so these would be perfect for his birthday party!
    Katja xxx

    Reply
  29. Akamatra

    June 9, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    Wow these look so cute! And very clever thinking to look online for the pastel colors!

    Reply
  30. Jessica Taylor

    June 9, 2017 at 2:39 pm

    Those are so cute and creative! I bet this would be cute for a sweet 16 party!

    Reply
  31. Emma

    June 9, 2017 at 11:57 am

    They look lovely, too good to eat in fact xx

    Reply
  32. ndemi

    June 9, 2017 at 9:44 am

    I love your level of creativity.

    Reply

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