Marble Royal Icing Recipe

Royal icing is a fairly runny icing that dries smooth and hard.

Marble royal icing recipe.

Royal icing in desired colors icing bags or bottles coupler and 2 tip toothpick. Tint one and leave the other white or tint it a contrasting color. Fill or flood your cookie with royal icing right away. I diluted all my royal icing down to top coat consistency 15 second icing.

If icing seems too thick add about tsp of water. The first technique is dipping the cookie facedown into the bowl of icing. Keep adding water until it goes flat in 15 seconds. The fun in this recipe is preparing the marbled icing.

Once you have your cookies baked and icing made it s time to begin by piping your outline. See our royal icing tutorials for outlining and flooding for more details 4. 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. Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.

Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat. Use a toothpick to create a marble effect. 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. Next make your royal icing.

First outline and flood your cookie with the base colour. Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top. Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat. Instead of dipping cookies.

Release your inner abstract artist as you drizzle red and green icing across a canvas of white on a baking sheet. 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. To make 15 second icing add cool water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.

For marbled cookies you need royal icing. For swirls divide your royal icing in two bowls. Frost cookies with a solid color base. Fill your piping bags with the coloured royal icing.