Marbled Icing Sugar Cookies - Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How to make icing marbled? ›

For a mostly white spaced out marble look like ours, take roughly 100g of white sugarpaste and colour it using a little peaco*ck blue food colouring, then knead to fully distribute the colour. Feel free to play around with the quantities to achieve your desired marble effect!

For marbling aka pull-through work: A consistency thicker than flooding consistency (i.e., about 3/4 to 1 1/2 teaspoons water per cup of icing “glue”) usually works best, as long as all of the icings you're using still marble fluidly without the appearance of “tracks.” The smoothest, sharpest marbling effect is also ...

Decorate your sugar cookies by first outlining the border, then filling in the middle with flood icing which should settle into itself. Use a toothpick or scribe tool to fill in any gaps by spreading the icing around, then tap the cookie on the counter a few times to help the icing settle into a smooth, even layer.

Chocolate chip cookies with powdered sugar are a unique twist on chocolate chip cookies! The powdered sugar in the recipe helps absorb moisture from other ingredients, giving the cookies a unique bumpy looking appearance and an extra tender and chewy texture.

The first step to making beautifully decorated cookies is making sure the cookies are completely cooled when you begin adding the icing. Play it safe by making it a two-day process: Bake the cookies one day, then decorate the next day.

Frosting is the thickest of these confections and is ideal for spreading or piping on cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Icing is a little thinner than frosting and is often poured or piped over coffee cakes, pound cakes, doughnuts and cookies—and it usually hardens when it dries.

Undermix, and your royal icing looks translucent and is structurally weak. Overwhip, and you're giving too much volume to the egg proteins via air, causing the structure to weaken in a different way. Overmixed icing usually looks porous when dry, and sometimes will not even fully dry and be soft/brittle.

Corn syrup helps give shine and also a soft-bite to your icing. Without corn syrup, your royal icing can be as hard as a rock, and no one wants to chip a tooth on a cookie. I use 1 Tablespoon of Karo Light Corn Syrup in my icing recipe. I've seen some cookiers use more but this ratio works well for me.

If the icing is applied thinly then it should take 4 to 6 hours to dry completely (though the surface will be touch dry quite quickly) but if it is a very thick layer (such as "snowcene" icing on a christmas cake) then it can take a few days to dry completely.