Learn how to create stunning brush embroidery effects on sugar cookies using royal icing and a simple painting technique. These cookies are not only delicious but also beautifully decorated, making them perfect for any special occasion.
Ingredients: 1 batch of your favorite sugar cookie dough. Royal icing in various colors. Edible food coloring. Piping bags. Round piping tips. Small paintbrush. Water. Paper towels.
Instructions: Follow your recipe to make the sugar cookie dough. Use cookie cutters to make the shapes you want out of the dough after rolling it out. After baking the cookies the way it says to, let them cool completely. Mix the royal icing until it's the right consistency for piped decorations. Put different amounts of royal icing into different bowls, and then use edible food coloring to color each bowl however you like. Put the colored royal icing into the piping bags that have a round tip on the end of each one. Add a thin line of a different color royal icing around the edges of the cookies after they have cooled. Add a few drops of water to the rest of the royal icing to make it thinner so that it floods. Spread the thinned royal icing evenly around the edges of the cookies with a toothpick as you fill them in. Leave the flooded icing to set for a while. Lightly wet the surface of the flooded icing with a small paintbrush and water. The paintbrush should be dipped in a different color of royal icing and then gently touched to the wet, flooded icing. The colors will run and mix, making a lovely effect like brush embroidery. Do this again and again, changing the colors and making patterns on each cookie. Let the cookies dry all the way through before you handle or package them. The brush embroidery cookies are ready to eat or give as gifts once they are dry. To keep the cookies fresh, make sure to put them in a container that won't let air in.
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
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