Marble Royal Icing Recipe

For marbled cookies you need royal icing.

Marble royal icing recipe.

Use a toothpick to create a marble effect. 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. Once you have your cookies baked and icing made it s time to begin by piping your outline. The fun in this recipe is preparing the marbled icing.

Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top. 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. If icing seems too thick add about tsp of water. To make 15 second icing add cool water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.

Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl. Next make your royal icing. Frost cookies with a solid color base. 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. Royal icing in desired colors icing bags or bottles coupler and 2 tip toothpick. To make 15 second icing add water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time. For swirls divide your royal icing in two bowls.

Keep adding water until it goes flat in 15 seconds. Release your inner abstract artist as you drizzle red and green icing across a canvas of white on a baking sheet. The first technique is dipping the cookie facedown into the bowl of icing. I like to use a piping bag fitted with a coupler and 2 tip.

Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat. 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. Fill your piping bags with the coloured royal icing. Fill or flood your cookie with royal icing right away.

Royal icing is a fairly runny icing that dries smooth and hard. Instead of dipping cookies. See our royal icing tutorials for outlining and flooding for more details 4. Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat.