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