Color Frosting
Stir food coloring into small amounts of frosting until it’s the desired color. For deep-colored frosting, use paste colors available in cake decorating shops.

Bake First, Then Decorate
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Always bake cookies or brownies before decorating with icing.

Cookie Art
Use your favorite cookie cutters for rolled cookies. Or, make a stencil by cutting your own pattern out of heavy paper. Use a knife to cut around the stencil onto rolled out cookie dough. Decorate cooled baked cookies white frosting. Tint frosting with liquid food coloring for pastel shades or, for more vibrant colors, use paste coloring (available at specialty stores near the cake-decorating supplies). For a thinner, glaze-like frosting, stir a small amount of light corn syrup into the prepared frosting. Add your choice of candies or colored sugars as a finishing touch.

Frosting Cookies or Brownies
Use a pastry bag with tips, use commercial frosting in tubes, or a plastic bag with a corner snipped off. If spreading frosting with a knife, thin frosting with milk to desired consistency.

Frosting Cookies or Brownies
Use a pastry bag with tips, use commercial frosting in tubes, or a plastic bag with a corner snipped off. If spreading frosting with a knife, thin frosting with milk to desired consistency.

Special Toppings
Scatter candy sprinkles, cinnamon red hots, chopped nuts, Nestlé® Toll House® Morsels, raisins, candy corn, licorice, or coconut over cookies or brownies.

To Color and Flavor Cookie Dough
Gradually add food coloring or flavor extract to one 18-oz. package of softened Nestlé® Toll House® Refrigerated Cookie Dough. Mix well. Refrigerate for 15 minutes for easy handling. Follow package directions for oven temperature. Check cookies for doneness a few minutes before the minimum baking time.

Add a Designer Touch
To desserts and dessert plates with a chocolate garnish, that also gives your desserts an extra dose of rich chocolate flavor.

Chocolate-Dipped Fruit

- Microwave 1 c (6 oz) of Nestlé® Toll House® Morsels and 2 Tablespoons of vegetable shortening in a small, microwave-safe bowl on high (100% power) for 1 minute.

- Remove from the microwave and stir.

- Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth.

- Dip fruit into chocolate mixture, carefully shaking off the excess.

- Place on waxed paper-lined tray and chill for 15 minutes, or until coating is set.

Chocolate Zig-Zags
To make chocolate zig-zags, or any piped design, place about 1/4 c. Nestlé® Toll House® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels in a small, heavy-duty plastic bag. Microwave on high (100% power) for about 30 seconds. Remove bag from the microwave and gently knead. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, kneading until smooth. Cut a tiny corner from the bag and squeeze designs onto waxed paper. Chill until firm, then use to garnish desserts and dessert plates.