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!

Cookie icing can be used in the same way that royal icing can; however, it doesn't dry as hard as royal icing does. It's great for flooding cookies or piping designs into wet icing. To thin the consistency of cookie icing, just pop it in the microwave for about 20 seconds.

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.

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.

You will need a cookie stamper to personalise them by words or draw images using a skewer or knife. place the icing on top of the sugar cookies.

Can powdered sugar be substituted for granulated sugar in recipes? A. It is not recommended to substitute powdered sugar for granulated sugar. Since powdered sugar has a much finer texture, and it contains a small percentage of cornstarch to prevent caking, substituting can give you unexpected results.

Royal icing is made by mixing icing sugar with egg white. Generally a 3:4 ratio of egg whites to cups of icing sugar (3 egg whites to 4 cups icing sugar). There's no such thing as “royal icing sugar” per se. It's just icing sugar use to make royal icing.

I tried 3 premade vanilla frostings to see which is the best. I tried premade vanilla frosting from Pillsbury, Duncan Hines, and Betty Crocker to find the best. The Pillsbury frosting piped well but I didn't care for the taste. Duncan Hines' vanilla frosting had the best flavor and texture.

For this technique, you'll want to decorate your cookies before baking. We recommend using decorative sugar (also known as colored sanding sugar), Turbinado sugar (coarse golden sugar) or pearl sugar (coarse clear sugar). It all sounds super fancy but it's really very easy!

What is a substitute for meringue powder? ›

You can also use standard powdered egg whites; just keep in mind that it won't have extra sugar or stabilizers like real meringue powder. Your recipe may not turn out quite as sweet or fluffy. Another unexpected substitute you can use is aquafaba (a.k.a., the liquid leftover from canned chickpeas).