Cookie Decorating - Beginner royal icing techniques - How to make easy heart cookies

Hello, welcome Merlin, here for today's

cookie

project. We were working on some

heart

s for Valentine's Day at the beginning of this tutorial. I'm going to talk briefly about the consistency of the frosting, but I really recommend that if you're a

beginner

you watch my longer version. For that video, I'll then talk about the tools and then we'll move on to the actual

decorating

, so let's get started. The consistency of the frosting is hard to explain here in a video, but basically what you need is frosting. It is liquid enough that, whenever you want, you can apply it to the

cookie

.

Once you stop touching it, gravity will flatten it and give it that porcelain surface. Now if I shake my little bowl here like you would with your cookie, you can see it's smoothing out if it's too runny a couple of things will happen, it could easily fall off the cookie and it'll run away from you and the other thing, once it dries, it will be completely flat on the cookie, you will not have any type. thick will simply look like a glaze on the surface of the cookie, so it's a dance. You know you are adding the water a little at a time to get the right consistency for your cookie if it is too much. thick by the time you're done, a crust will already form and it will be difficult to add secondary lines and such, so probably if you are a

beginner

, the liquid ER is better, especially since we have a perimeter that keeps it in the cookie, but it is practical, You know?

You will have to play with it and then you will find out what is the good consistency for you, but they usually say 20 seconds, so when you mix, you can count 20 seconds and the surface is smooth, that is the good consistency. so let's take a quick look at the supplies: a cookie cutter. Ideally you would have a

heart

-shaped cookie cutter, but you could certainly

make

pink designs on a round cookie that you could easily

make

, like a mug or glass, into a heart-shaped cookie cutter, if you don't want to buy a lot of food, I suggest you don't buy, read, it looks like a dark pink on you, so the dark pink can become like a super dark pink and then make a light pink red.

Don't make a nice light pink and then white frosting, well you don't have to add anything and then sprinkle, these are a notepad, some little balls here, these are the Valentine's game, you can get them only pink, only red or just whites and sanding sugar. It's decorative sugar and it comes in a lot of different colors and it's nice if you can coordinate the signing sugar with the color of the

icing

and then a needle tool is just a fancy toothpick so if you don't have that just use a toothpick and that's it. pretty. All you need are all the piping bags.

These are blunt bags. I haven't seen them in the store. You usually have to order them online. The alternative is a ziploc bag, but when you squeeze it, if you're not careful, you could tear it. It's up to you if you want to invest in some real piping bags, they can be expensive. In my opinion, the little kits seem a bit ridiculous. I think they are like at the bulk store you can buy them like just a few at a time so basically these are your supplies so let's start

decorating

by far the hardest part of cookie decorating is outlining the piping , so the trick if you want to hide your lines, if you don't like the way they look, you're a perfectionist, so piping now.

I've practiced a lot, so my lines are pretty straight, so once you're done, okay, you're going to take your cookie and you're going to dip it, and some of them are called pate null, they're not called sprinkles, sprinkles, or similar. rice, these are little spheres, they're little circles and you see you just gently dip them in there to adhere it to your frosting, your wet frosting or I'm just kind of soft, I don't completely flatten my line and once I have it Everywhere we're going to turn it over and look at it and now with the notepad on I can go in and touch the edge, see, and just push it back like I want and if there's too much in there, you can take a little toothpick or whatever and move it like this and you'll be able to shape your line and this will hold the

icing

and we've just made the icing sit perfectly on the edge if you're not really into the notepad.

To show you now how to sand sugar, sanding sugar is not normal, like the sugar that you use to make your

cookies

, they are bigger granules and that makes them a little shiny and you can get them in all kinds of colors and I know there are videos like make your own and all that, it's not worth it, you can get them at bulk stores for not much, it's not an expensive product, it's not worth the hassle of making it yourself, now here are my sprinkles or my sanding sugar , I should say I'm doing the same thing I did with not urinating.

I'm dipping my cookie in there but I don't want to squish my line. I'm just dipping it gently and again you can go in now and touch it as it's coated it's not sticky anymore and you can shape it any way you want and now you have an almost perfect edge and when we go in and dip the frosting it won't fall off, this keeps the frosting from falling. fall off the cookie and so my perimeter here has had time to dry, so when I go in and add the frosting inside, the frosting isn't going to fall off and since it's dry I can pick it up and I don't have to worry if you take the frosting to the edge and you're starting to pick it up, you're going to stick your fingers in it and all of this gives you a safe place to grab them and you see we have a nice kind of finish and if let's say it was going in here okay with the secondary glaze here, it could just cover the line. and make it a little bit more perfect, so we're going to start with this one here and we're going to do a very basic design

royal

icing, it's important when you're using different colors and you're doing wet on wet so that the icing has the same consistency because if It is more runny than white, let's say well, when it dries it will be concave, it will make a dent in the finish, so it is better to get the right consistency with the white icing and then distribute in bowls the secondary colors so that everything has the same consistency and looks better in the finished product.

I'm working with the first color. What I'm going to do is white, I'm just going to fill the entire cookie with this white icing and you can, if you're using these tipless bags, just flatten it out and then you can cut it out and it's better to cut it smaller. than bigger and then go back and cut again so you don't make a giant hole and then obviously you can't make it any smaller and now I'm getting really against my sparks here so that it creates a nice seam that I don't want to squeeze like crazy and It will spill over so go slow until you find your rhythm and have done a few, you can go faster until you figure it out.

I suggest less is more, so You're just filling the

cookies

, look at this little hole right there, okay until the frosting touches, that won't heal, you have to make sure it connects, just give it a nudge with the piping bag or the tip that you have and can. just make it connect by filling all the holes, you don't want to add too much frosting or else it will spill out, especially since we are adding another color. Now I'm just going to shake it a little bit and now I'm taking the darkest pink and you can do any color.

I'm just showing you some ideas here and now I have a little hole and I'm right in the middle here. I'm just adding a few points and then staggering forward. the next one you see it and you just line up looking at the previous row to know where to go and the polka dots, it's fun to watch it melt into the base color and create this cool porcelain finish and you can rotate the cookie just to make it easier to work with and try to line up like in the previous line and take your time, a small hole is better in this case and we are just making polka dots all over the place, we are not dragging or anything in this case.

This is as pretty as polka dots, it doesn't have to be covered in hearts, it is a heart cookie after all. I remember the first time I saw a polka dot cookie. I was surprised how smooth the surface was, how did they do it? Well, this is it and you can see that everything is curing and if it's not curing the way you want, just shake it like this and there we have a nice polka dot cookie and you can see the surface, you see the light hitting it. It's all smooth so we're going to let it dry and this is it, we're doing the polka dots and now I'm going to fill in this blank, there I'm just pushing it to connect with the sanding. sugar filling in the spaces.

I'm not squeezing out the frosting, I'm just moving the frosting around so it connects with the perimeter and now it's a soft, pretty smooth dough and I'm taking the light pink and I'm just cutting away. a little hole, okay and now here I'm following a kind of edge here and I'm spacing my lines anyway, okay and now I'm rotating and I'm creating squares trying to make the spaces the same. hand with the other one there and now I'm taking the darkest one and right in the corners I'm adding a dot of the darker pink try to make them the same size and if they're not you can go back and just press there and make them bigger until that they have the size you want.

This one here I went a little crazy, but I'll leave it and now here I'm going to pull from top to bottom and this creates a little heart in the polka. You pull the stitch and this creates a heart. You want to wipe the toothpick or needle between passes so it's clean and you don't get pink where you don't want it and you can see when the icing starts to dry. it doesn't heal as well so you have to work a little quick let's shake the bake we should be good and let's lift it up turn it over so you can see those hearts and I'm just going to gently tap those little peaks and they should heal and stop this one here I'm just going to fill it all in and in the same pink kind of perimeter I need a pink cookie so I'm going to exactly match it but close enough I don't like to use red I lean more towards pink the color red for food even if it says no taste it tastes disgusting and I try to avoid it too some conversations on Google red color tissa T for food I don't think the pink one is much better, but in my opinion it is less intense, so I just fill this whole cookie and, as before, We are going to mash the frosting to fill all the spaces with a batter. shake, shake and now I'm going to work around this cookie putting a pretty big dog around it and here I'm starting here and I'm going to go through all of these points now so I'm pulling towards the center. of all these dots on this side now and they're going to meet here and a shake, let's pull the little dots together and if you want, once that's done, you can go in with the lighter pink and just add some little polka dots. around that random little crown type and there we have the heart.

Now I'm going to fill all of this in a light pink. The color sequence does not matter. You could enter another color if you want. I think like a blue. It would be really pretty if you want to break up all this pink, but if you don't decorate much, then you're going to have to get another bottle of food coloring and now I'm going to do staggered dots like this. I'm leaving a bigger space in the middle. I'm going to put one here and I'm just going to rotate it so I can work here and I'm just pulling it towards the center right creating a row of hearts like that here.

Try to go straight. I shouldn't have had that cup of coffee. I'm shaking like crazy. Okay, now that I have my rows of hearts, I'm taking my white icing and I'm just making a line down the middle, like this, the white color brightens it up and the lines also break up the heart design and on the ends I have like clumps. , like thicker lines, you can go in and fix that with a little shake and there's our pretty heart cookies. I'm going to fill the cookie with white here on the edge well we're going to create like a thickness around it we're drawing a heart in the middle okay and now in the middle of that is me and the other white pink or the rest I'm just going to take out the shape down, we're going to spread the frosting here and I'm just going to spread this pink like this, it's the same color here, like this, like this and now I'm going to create little hearts here, right here, it didn't work so I'm just adding the pink part more dark and a darker pink part here and we're going to take all of those out, so first you have to fill the whole cookie here.

I'm connecting to my sprinkles and then just filling the other cookie and it doesn't feel like too much because you add quite a few colors, you add more frosting with other colors and so you're potentially going to make your cookie spill so you don't want that , so like I said before, just smash it. let it even out but don't add too much ready and now I'm going to take the white it doesn't matter you just need at least I would say two colors and I'm just going to make lines on the surface of the cookie like that and I'm taking my light pink now don't worry along the bottom since you're dragging it, it's going to fill it as you pull on the frosting and you can see that my pink line is not the same width as the white one again no You're going to see a problem and I'm going to pull down here in the middle and I'm pulling right in the center here and up here and I'm not going straight.

I'm following the form like this. of this heart a heart is something rounded so I'm just follow theheart shape and now I'm shaking because I really like to get those strokes out of the cookie and I like to follow the heart shape, usually I've seen them, they're like you're very straight and this just fits the shape a little bit more , you see, create points here at the bottom. I'm going to fill this cookie and light pink and we're going to do something a little bit different on this one fill it and just rotate okay so we're good we have the surface filled and now I'm taking the dark pink and I'm creating some dots , come down here and now I'm taking the white and right in the middle. of those hearts of those circles right here in the middle, I'm just putting white icing in the middle of the pink and you can see it's giving me a perimeter, a dark pink perimeter around those white lines and now when I come out, I'm getting two shades, you see, and I'm just going to add some little dots here and I'm going to pull out those dots, I'm just going to pull them out randomly, not necessarily to create hearts, more like there's some little details added. and that's it, I'm doing half of the final cookies in white here and now I'm just adding some big pink dots all over and then just a little bit of dark pink to that dot and now we're going to go in with the needle and we're going to spin this and now we're going to create some hearts that go in all directions and I'm taking my two colors and I'm just going to add some polka dots all over the place and now with the light and that's It's a way to even out those points both for see them.

If you want to see the icing cookie tutorial, you will find the link in the description box as well as the cookie canvas. I'll have that link too, so thank you so much for Looking thank you so much for being here and I'll see you next time.