Painting cookies with food coloring. The sugar cookie recipe below makes about four dozen cookies. We usually use a drop of food color to several drops of water. It had brushes gel dye glitter dust and royal iced blank cookies for my canvases.
By combining mccormicks vanilla or lemon extracts with mccormick food coloring you can make flavor paints a fragrant mix of vanilla or lemon extract and food color. Use simple shapes that are easy for kids to paint. Divide mixture among several bowls one for each color.
Look how bright and vibrant the colors are. Use natural food coloring that is better for kids. For my birthday my friend karen baker extrodinaire gave me a super creative gift a painting cookie kit.
I love the look of these watercolor cookies. Making edible food paint is easy and there are so many fun things you can do with it. Combine 2 egg yolks and 2 teaspoons water in small bowl with fork until blended.
Tint each of the four mixtures with food coloring. My friends at mccormick have the most fabulous technique called flavor painting. I also paint by extending petal and luster dusts with alcohol based extracts.
There are over 40 colors to choose from. The alcohol evaporates quickly so you rarely have to worry about getting a cookie too wet with water and dissolving the underlying icing. Did you know that you can paint your cookies.
Its something ive been using on my baked goods more and more to make them more eye catching. Do not buy sweetened condensed milk. The food colors found in stores dont work nearly as well.
Unbaked cookies become an artists canvas with the unusual but easy technique of painting cookies with egg yolk. They are so concentrated that they cover well and can be diluted with water. Or painted cookies that look like they have been painted with watercolors when really its just food coloring on fondant or royal icing.
A quick tutorial for how to make edible food paint and gold food paint. Use food colors for paint. Use food coloring to paint watercolor cookies on fondant or royal icing.
For more fun press cookie dough through a garlic press to make. How to paint watercolor cookies. Cookie painting with gel food coloring duration.
Only brush this paint on unbaked cookies.