Royal icing in desired colors icing bags or bottles coupler and 2 tip toothpick.
Marble royal icing recipe.
To make 15 second icing add cool water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.
Fill or flood your cookie with royal icing right away.
Frost cookies with a solid color base.
Next make your royal icing.
For swirls divide your royal icing in two bowls.
I like to use a piping bag fitted with a coupler and 2 tip.
If icing seems too thick add about tsp of water.
Fill your piping bags with the coloured royal icing.
Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat.
I diluted all my royal icing down to top coat consistency 15 second icing.
Royal icing is a fairly runny icing that dries smooth and hard.
Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.
See our royal icing tutorials for outlining and flooding for more details 4.
Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.
The fun in this recipe is preparing the marbled icing.
Instead of dipping cookies.
Use a toothpick to create a marble effect.
Dip cookies in the marbled icing shake clean the edges using a knife or simply a toothpick and place on a rack to let the icing set.
Read more about royal icing recipe free illustrated recipe video royal icing consistency made easy the 10 second rule video on how to figure out the consistency of royal icing for decorating cookies runouts etc using the 10 second rule.
First outline and flood your cookie with the base colour.
Release your inner abstract artist as you drizzle red and green icing across a canvas of white on a baking sheet.
Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top.
To make 15 second icing add water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.
Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat.
Tint one and leave the other white or tint it a contrasting color.
Keep adding water until it goes flat in 15 seconds.
The first technique is dipping the cookie facedown into the bowl of icing.
Once you have your cookies baked and icing made it s time to begin by piping your outline.