We absolutely love decorating cookies. We've been decorating cookies since we were little and could barely reach the kitchen table. We'd have a selection of four to five different colors and would make quite the mess. As we've gotten older, we're not as messy — but we could certainly use any help we could get.
Our prayers were answered when we found the Kuhn Rikon Frosting Decorating Pen. While some may argue this takes the fun out of things and that it may be an unnecessary tool — you're probably a great cookie decorator. Not all of us are, so we welcome this product with open arms.
Set includes three frosting cartridges, one color mixer, three filler plates, five decorating tips and a nozzle for filling cupcakes. The decorating tips are easily changed and allow for no frosting to be wasted. Gone are the days of messy cookies, cakes and cupcakes!
• Find It: Kuhn Rikon Frosting Decorating Pen, $19.96 at Sur La Table
Related: Kuhn Rikon Squeezable Decorating Kit
(Images: Sur La Table)
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If you're decorating any amount of cookies, or even an 8" cake, your finger is going to get tired. Just use a pastry bag and be done with it. If you want to do something well, you need to learn the skills needed for the job. Besides, if this "pen" breaks or stops working, how much are you going to shell out to get it fixed and/or replaced? Bags are much cheaper and simpler.
This looks amazing and I want one right now. I always end up making such a mess with my icing bag as it seeps out the top and all over me. Oh well! My gingerbread men this weekend will be wonky but well-loved regardless.
I'd really love a demonstration of how to use a pastry bag. This seems like a mono-tasker to me and the only one of those allowed in my kitchen is the ice cream maker.
@Lunchy, sounds like you're overfilling your bag. Don't put more frosting in that you can't comfortably squeeze.
Well, honestly, I hate that thing. Hard to control. I am a purist; love the pastry bag.
I think this is a great product and I was very excited to see it, minus the fact that it is really $29.95. I was a little disappointed since your website says $19.95.
They make tubes of frosting that you can hold like a pencil like this that are precolored.... theyre like $3 at any grocery store in the baking aisle. $29.95 is ridiculous.
Nope, plastic disposable pastry bags - it won't pop out the top if you only fill it halfway, twist it closed tight, rubberband the top and fold the twisted top over again and rubberband it again if you want. And a light squeeze of your hand is less tiring over time than the clicking of a finger for every single squirt, plus the bag allows more control over your lines/stars.