This recipe is adapted from
Simply Sensational Cookies, which I’m pleased to say was just nominated for an IACP baking book award–woohoo!) The icing is completely dye-free and the recipe makes a small batch–enough to generously accent about 15 2½-to-3-inch cookies. It’s designed so you can make and use several batches of different colors at once. For example, the cookies here were accented with a combination of yellow icing (tinted with thawed orange juice concentrate); light and bright pink icings (tinted with cranberry juice concentrate); a peach colored icing (tinted with orange juice concentrate and cranberry juice concentrate; and a brown icing (tinted with cocoa powder). You just choose whichever coloring ingredient from the list you need to produce the particular hue desired.