I diluted all my royal icing down to top coat consistency 15 second icing.
Marble royal icing recipe.
The fun in this recipe is preparing the marbled icing.
Royal icing in desired colors icing bags or bottles coupler and 2 tip toothpick.
I like to use a piping bag fitted with a coupler and 2 tip.
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.
For marbled cookies you need royal icing.
Use a toothpick to create a marble effect.
Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.
Fill or flood your cookie with royal icing right away.
Instead of dipping cookies.
For swirls divide your royal icing in two bowls.
Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat.
Royal icing is a fairly runny icing that dries smooth and hard.
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.
Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top.
To make 15 second icing add cool water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.
Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat.
To make 15 second icing add water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.
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.
Fill your piping bags with the coloured 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.
Frost cookies with a solid color base.
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.
The first technique is dipping the cookie facedown into the bowl of icing.
If icing seems too thick add about tsp of water.