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Marble royal icing recipe.
See our royal icing tutorials for outlining and flooding for more details 4.
Next make your royal icing.
To make 15 second icing add water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.
Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.
Release your inner abstract artist as you drizzle red and green icing across a canvas of white on a baking sheet.
If icing seems too thick add about tsp of water.
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.
Once you have your cookies baked and icing made it s time to begin by piping your outline.
Tint one and leave the other white or tint it a contrasting color.
The fun in this recipe is preparing the marbled icing.
Count how long it takes for the glob to go flat.
Stir until smooth then pick up a big glob and drizzle it back into the bowl.
Royal icing is a fairly runny icing that dries smooth and hard.
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.
For marbled cookies you need royal icing.
Use a toothpick to create a marble effect.
For swirls divide your royal icing in two bowls.
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.
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.
First outline and flood your cookie with the base colour.
Frost cookies with a solid color base.
Instead of dipping cookies.
To make 15 second icing add cool water to about 2 cups of royal icing 1 tsp at a time.
Keep adding water until it goes flat in 15 seconds.
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.