Marble Royal Icing Recipe

Instead of dipping cookies.

Marble royal icing recipe.

For swirls divide your royal icing in two bowls. Tint one and leave the other white or tint it a contrasting color. 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. Royal icing in desired colors icing bags or bottles coupler and 2 tip toothpick.

Frost cookies with a solid color base. To make 15 second icing add cool water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time. The first technique is dipping the cookie facedown into the bowl of icing. I diluted all my royal icing down to top coat consistency 15 second icing.

Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat. The fun in this recipe is preparing the marbled icing. Fill or flood your cookie with royal icing right away. Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top.

First outline and flood your cookie with the base colour. I diluted all my royal icing down to top coat consistency 15 second icing. Once you have your cookies baked and icing made it s time to begin by piping your outline. Use a toothpick to create a marble effect.

Fill your piping bags with the coloured royal icing. Royal icing is a fairly runny icing that dries smooth and hard. See our royal icing tutorials for outlining and flooding for more details 4. Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.

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. 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. 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.

Next make your royal icing. If icing seems too thick add about tsp of water. Keep adding water until it goes flat in 15 seconds. I like to use a piping bag fitted with a coupler and 2 tip.