Marble Icing Effect Cookies

Simple sugar cookies with a marble glaze these heart cookies would be a sweet valentine s treat.

Marble icing effect cookies.

I promise you giving your cookies a marbled look like this is no harder than well icing them in the first place. Using the frosting cover the whole surface area of the acetate leaving some space on the sides for you to hold onto it and place it afterward. Then add a bit of blue. For marbled cookies you need royal icing.

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. Add more green and red icing on top of the white icing and repeat until all cookies are done. How to make marbled swirled or feathered decorated cookies if you d like to try the marbled effect the most important thing for your success is the consistency of the icing. Valentine s day is nearly a month away and these heart cookies would be completely appropriate as a gift for your sweetheart or just for yourself.

To help you with that my cookie decorating tutorial goes over some tips and the 10 second rule here. Put a good bit of white in your plate. Tint one and leave the other white or tint it a contrasting color. For swirls divide your royal icing in two bowls.

If you can draw a squiggle i promise you can marbleize your cookies. Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top. These cookies might have waited until next month to be posted. Royal icing is a fairly runny icing that dries smooth and hard.

For a traditional monochromatic marble use gel food coloring to color one bowl of icing black one bowl a light grey and one bowl white. If you know you d prefer cookies that are primarily one color i prefer a predominantly white cookie make sure you keep the majority of your glaze that color. All you have to do drizzle some of your colored royal icing over your white. You can also mix but not too much some of the shades to make it look like marble swirls.

Want to really go really fancy with your cookies. Use a toothpick to create a marble effect. Place the frosting with an offset spatula for a better effect. 0 00 how to marble fondant method 2.

Time to dip our cookies to get that beautiful marbled effect.