I finally dipped my toe into video blogging; here’s a how-to on marbling, swirling , or feathering royal icing on cookies:
Click here if you can’t see the video.
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If you’d like to see more images and information on marbling, click here.
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If you’d like to try making these, here’s what you’ll need…
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What you’ll need to make marbled decorated cookies:
- Gingerbread or Sugar Cookie Recipe
- Royal Icing Recipe
- Christmas Ornaments Cookie Cutters
- Piping Tips
- Piping Bag Coupler
- Piping Bags
- Dragées
- Icing Bag Ties (You can use elastic bands)
- Toothpicks
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And it’s about time I made my first video tutorial for the University of Cookie!
I was honored and pleased as punch (yes, I did say pleased as punch), to be invited by Bridget to be a “professor” there. If you haven’t seen U of C, It’s full of all kinds of super cookie decorating tips from other U of C professors; I recommend you check them out here!
For those of you prefer images to my video, here’s a step-by-step of how cookies are marbled:
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Done!
Now that I’ve dipped my toes into the video blogging world, I’ll be doing videos here and there. Please leave me a comment below letting me know:
Hi Marian!
I just came across your website via pinterest! I love all your video tutorials! Especially this one 🙂
you really help me a lot with thw video tutorial
I am so impressed with the ease of how you have explained your recipe. I don’t think I will have any problems.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipes with the Pinterest community.
Loretta
Do you have a video that shows hoe to use edible transfers on a cookie? Like a company logo for example? Thanks!
HI @ Suzy Gillum: Here’s one where I make an RI transfer. Hope it helps!
Thanks for your comments ladies. xo
I just wanted to say a great big THANK YOU for you and your wonderful blog. You are truly an insparation to me with your cookies designs. Now I can make sugar cookies and have them ready for the holidays. Thank again Marian
Your videos are so helpful! Thank you so much for doing what you do! I would love to see a video on how you get such clean edges on your cookies, no spreading, just amazing. Happy Holidays!
Hi Marian – first of all thanks so much for these videos! I took my very first stab at Royal Icing for Christmas and the icing was the perfect consistency. People thought I had been making these decorated cookies for years. 🙂 I have a timing question – I only had #2 tips so I would outline and flood the cookie using a #2. This worked fine, but it obviously takes a long time to flood a larger cookie with this smaller tip so on the marbled ones, the icing was already starting to dry a bit. So do you switch your tips between outlining and flooding or do you have multiple bags with different tips? #2 tips weren’t an issue on the cookies that weren’t marbled since the first color had to dry anyway. Thanks again! (I’m also going to post a tip on the sugar cookie recipe for those of us living in the tropics.)
Thanks for your comments, @ Laura and @ Charlene Glover!
Sorry I’m only getting to this now, @ Emily! I’m going through a pile of emails still from Christmas (!) and comment notifications are part of those emails…
Okay, so for medium sized cookies where I outline with a 2, I don’t switch the tips, I just press the piping bag a lot harder to squeeze the icing out faster. For cookies that are so large that one side would start to dry while I’m still flooding (with a #2 tip), I use a #3 or 4 tip for both outlining and flooding. If it’s such a large cookie, I don’t really need a fine tip like #2 to outline (because the cookie is larger). Hopefully that helps you!
Thanks Marian! Can’t wait to try it on Valentine’s cookies. Cookie cutters and disco dust just arrived in the mail. 🙂
Gracias por este maravilloso tutorial
realmente fantástico…! gracias.
Thank you very much for your tutorials. They helps me a lot. Hugs from Portugal.
i have never decorated cookies…i am really not even a baker but i wanted to try your marbling.
more video tutorials please. there was a swirl of color cookie-can’t figure out how to do it. help please.
you are amazing.
deanna
Just love your videos and useful tips! I never knew baking cookies could be so fun! Thank you, Thank you! oh and my KIDS thank you 🙂
Thanks everyone for your lovely comments!
Thank you Marian for all the tips. It really helps a lot.
Found your site on Pinterest! Love your site…Thank you
Please do a video on your kitchenaid cookies I’ve just ordered a cookie cutter and would love to see how u make the work of art I hope one day I can be as good as you xxxx
Thank you for your tutorial. Can’t wait to wow my family and friends with gorgeous cookie designs !!!
Your website and videos are just right. A good combination of theory and practice. I love decorating, and I’m always interested in learning. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Love your marbling, I can’t wait to try it this season. Can you stack your cookies without the royal icing smudging? I need to travel across the country with my cookies this year. I need a durable icing!
Thank you!!
Thanks for your wonderful videos. I can’t wait to start decorating!
Thank you very much for your tutorial! I am using your sugar cookie and royal icing recipes for my Christmas cookies as well as this marbling technique. I hope my cookies turn out as beautiful as yours!
Thank you for your tutorial from Italy!
Love CHIARELLA
After you put the frosting on. Do you bake? Or do you bake first, then cool, then frost?
Hi Jennifer,
After you put the frosting on you don’t bake the cookies (that would melt the icing). Here is a video to help you with cookie drying tips:
https://sweetopia.net/2012/01/video-how-to-dry-cookies-decorated-with-royal-icing/
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Thank You! for sharing. I hope to take what I have hopefully learned from the video and put it to work. It will be fun.