Should you sit or stand when decorating cookies?
The short answer to that question is: do what feels best for you.
BUT. I want to share the tip that has saved me from an aching back and tense shoulders for years.
I have decorated thousands of cookies over the years. Maybe tens of thousands. Birthday cookies, wedding cookies, Christmas cookies, Valentine cookies, floral cookies, silly cookies, and even a weird Don Draper cookie that looked exactly like Mitt Romney. I've spent a lot of time covered in royal icing.
The point is...I've logged some hours decorating cookies. I always preferred to work standing up. I felt like I could get a better angle with the piping bag, and sitting felt awkward.
One night, when I crawled into bed with an aching back and sore shoulders after a long day of cookie decorating, my husband said, "Why don't you raise your work surface?"
Friends, this is why you marry an engineer.
So, I started putting my cookie sheet on a stack of cookbooks.
Eventually, I graduated to a step stool...I usually have one in the kitchen anyway. It was perfect!
So, my answer to the age-old question: Is it Better to Sit or Stand When Decorating Cookies? STAND...and raise your work surface!
