To begin you need three complimentary royal icing colors that are flood consistency.
The best way to test your icing to see if it is flood consistency is to draw a line through the center of it with a table knife. The icing should settle back into place in 10 seconds. If your icing is too thick add water just a drop at a time until you get it right.
For all three of the ways to decorate you need to do this:
Bake a batch of sugar cookies. |
Outline the cookies. |
Flood the cookies and use a skewer to move the icing. |
Once the base coat is on the cookies you are ready to choose one of the following techniques. |
Technique 1: Dots
Drop a few dots of icing onto each cookie. |
Drop some more dots in another color and you are done. |
Technique 2: Chevron
Draw two lines leaving space in the middle for a third. |
Add your third line in another color. |
Use a skewer to draw a line across the icing four times alternating the direction. |
Technique 3: Marbling
Draw two circles around the cookie in different colors. |
Use a skewer to drag the icing in circles around the edge of the cookie and through the two colored circles. |
Maybe you want to try all three techniques. It's easy and the results are satisfying. |
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