The Best Cookie Decorating Kits to Make Your Desserts Dazzle

Best Overall

Kuhn Rikon 23-Piece Cookie Set

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This wonderful cookie press from Kuhn Rikon helps you start decorating memorable cookies before you even bake them. Put your dough in the barrel of the cookie press, select a shape disk, and squeeze the steel trigger to pipe out consistent cookies onto a tray. There are 14 different disks that make a multitude of shapes, including traditional varieties, holiday-themed options (a Christmas tree, pumpkin, heart, and bat), and summery shapes (a flower, butterfly, and camel). This 23-piece cookie set also comes with a squeeze bottle and six decorating tips for icing. From beginning to end, this decorating set can help you create one-of-a-kind cookies. 

Price at time of publish: $30

Includes: 1 cookie press, 14 shape disks, 1 squeeze bottle, 1 coupler, 6 decorating tips, instructions, recipes

Best Holiday

Williams Sonoma 'Twas the Night Holiday Cookie Cutter 26-Piece Set

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Making and decorating cookies around the holidays is a classic tradition. Williams Sonoma brings the Christmas nostalgia with this beautiful cookie decorating set. It's all presented in a storage box that looks like a classic storybook. There are 12 stainless steel cookie cutters in a variety of wintery shapes, including a star, tree, house, candle, ornament, reindeer, snowflake, present, nutcracker, swan, sleigh, and the jolly old elf himself, Santa Claus.

In addition to the thematic cutters, the cookie kit also includes 10 disposable pastry bags for frosting and filling. There are four pastry tips for various fun designs, and a coupler to keep everything nice and neat. It's a well-rounded kit. Williams Sonoma even printed their favorite sugar cookie recipe on the inside of the box.

Price at time of publish: $25

Includes: 12 cookie cutters, 10 pastry bags, 4 pastry tips, coupler, decorative box

Best Budget

Dido Cookie Press

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For a multifunctional budget-friendly decorating kit, we recommend this cookie press kit by Dido. It comes with a small plastic cookie press (with a cute flower-shaped plunger), six decorating tips, and a spatula. You can put cookie dough in the press and pipe out shapes of your choice using the different styles of tips. The press can also handle icing, so you can decorate cookies or other desserts, like cupcakes and cakes. Everything is easy to assemble, disassemble, and clean. This versatile tool is really only limited by your imagination. 

Price at time of publish: $10

Includes: 1 cookie press, 6 decorating tips, 1 spatula

Best Pre-Baked

Cheryl's Cut-Out Cookie Decorating Kit

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If you want to get right to the decorating and skip the baking part, Cheryl’s sells cut-out cookie decorating kits. This all-in-one set comes packaged in a cute bakery-themed box. There are 24 cookies total, two tubs of frosting—one vanilla, one chocolate—and sugar sprinkles in various colors. It’s a fun activity that would be a hit at sleepovers, birthday parties, family get-togethers, and celebrations of any kind. 

Includes: 24 pre-baked cut-out cookies, 1 pound tub of vanilla frosting, 1 pound tub of chocolate frosting, 1 canister of sprinkles, 1 decorative box

Best Beginner

Artcome Cookie Decorating Tool Set

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If you’re new to the world of cookie decorating, you’re going to need a few things to get started. This basic set from Artcome should do the trick. It has 28 cookie cutters in various sizes and fun shapes, including hearts, stars, flowers, circles, a moon, reindeer, snowflakes, and more. The kit also has multiple squeeze bottles for icing, which allows you to pipe intricate patterns with optimal control. Lastly, there are several scriber needles for smoothing out icing on your cookies. It’s an inclusive and affordable set for anyone just starting out.

 Price at time of publish: $16

Includes: 28 stainless steel cookie cutters, (6) 2-ounce squeeze bottles, 6 scriber needles

Best for Kids

Color My Cookie Under the Sea Cookie Decorating Kit

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Snacktime and crafting combine to make this kid-pleasing cookie kit. Color My Cookie provides pre-baked and pre-iced cookies in whimsical shapes that kids can decorate with food-safe paints. This sea-themed kit has three nautical shapes for kids to enjoy: a seahorse, smiling octopus, and starfish. An additional cookie is shaped like a paint palette and holds the edible paints. Dip the provided paintbrush in a little bit of water, dab it on the color you want, and get to painting. You can even eat the palette afterward. For extra creative fun, the kit comes with sprinkles, icing, and other edible decorations themed for an underwater adventure. Color My Cookie also has other themed kits available, including this dinosaur one and this unicorns and rainbows kit. 

Price at time of publish: $39

Includes: 2 seahorse cookies, 2 octopus cookies, 2 starfish cookies, 1 paint palette cookie (with 4 edible paint colors), 2 paint brushes, 2 cups, icing, sprinkles, edible decor

Best Large

Cakebe Cake Cupcake Decorating Kit 68 PCS

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If you want to get serious about your cookie decorating skills, then you’ll need the right tools. Cakebe’s massive 68-piece supply kit has everything you need and more. For the icing, there are six big decorating tips for larger items, like cakes, and 36 numbered tips in a variety of shapes and patterns. The set comes with 10 durable but disposable piping bags and two additional reusable silicone piping bags. There are three textured bench scrapers, a pair of pastry tweezers, a syringe, a cleaning brush, and more, all packed in a handy and organized toolbox. Cakebe also has other sizes available, ranging from 52 pieces to a whopping 342 pieces. 

Price at time of publish: $28

Includes: 1 storage box, 6 big decorating tips, 36 numbered decorating tips, 1 cleaning brush, 1 syringe, 3 bench scrapers, 1 decorating nail, 1 pastry tweezer, 10 disposable piping bags, 2 reusable silicone piping bags, couplers and ties, 1 pattern chart

Best Custom

Uncommon Goods Edible Custom Photo Cookie Kit

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A picture is worth a thousand words, and these pictures from Uncommon Goods are edible. The Edible Custom Photo Cookie not only provides the dry ingredients for baking delicious sugar cookies but also prints off custom edible stickers of photos you submit with your order. It yields 12 cookies total. If you submit one photo, you’ll receive 12 edible stickers of that picture. With two photos, you’ll get six each. With three pictures, there will be four stickers each. Peel off the sticker and place it on the cookie for a truly one-of-a-kind treat. It’s perfect for birthday parties, graduations, anniversaries, or retirements. 

Price at time of publish: $45

Includes: Dry cookie ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, vanilla sugar, salt, confectioner’s sugar), 12 edible custom stickers, circle cookie cutters, instructions, recipe book

Best Royal Icing

Tasty by Wilton Royal Icing 101 Kit

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If you’re looking for a great royal icing kit, Tasty and Wilton have you covered. The Royal Icing 101 collection has everything you need to get started: an instruction kit, parchment paper, decorating bags, decorating tips, three bottles of food coloring, and royal icing mix. With this kit, you can make intricate cookie designs and other royal icing creations. It’s a great set for those new to royal icing or people who want to hone their skills. 

Price at time of publish: $13

Includes: 6 decorating bags, 3 parchment paper sheets, large and small round decorating tips, (3) 0.3-ounce bottles of food coloring (red, blue, yellow), 14 ounces of royal icing mix, instruction card