Frost cookies with a solid color base.
Marble royal icing recipe.
Fill or flood your cookie with royal icing right away.
See our royal icing tutorials for outlining and flooding for more details 4.
Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top.
If icing seems too thick add about tsp of water.
Keep adding water until it goes flat in 15 seconds.
The fun in this recipe is preparing the marbled icing.
Fill your piping bags with the coloured royal icing.
Once you have your cookies baked and icing made it s time to begin by piping your outline.
Royal icing is a fairly runny icing that dries smooth and hard.
I diluted all my royal icing down to top coat consistency 15 second icing.
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Instead of dipping cookies.
Tint one and leave the other white or tint it a contrasting color.
I diluted all my royal icing down to top coat consistency 15 second icing.
Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.
To make 15 second icing add water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.
Royal icing in desired colors icing bags or bottles coupler and 2 tip toothpick.
To make 15 second icing add cool water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.
I like to use a piping bag fitted with a coupler and 2 tip.
Use a toothpick to create a marble effect.
Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat.
Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.
For marbled cookies you need royal icing.
Release your inner abstract artist as you drizzle red and green icing across a canvas of white on a baking sheet.
Next make your royal icing.
Once your cookie is flooded pick a different colour icing and pipe parallel lines across the surface of the cookie leaving about 1 cm between each.
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.
For swirls divide your royal icing in two bowls.