Abstract Snowflake Cookie

Two sugar cookies decorated with marbled blue, white, and black snowflake designs
Kim Simons
Intermediate
Learn how to decorate an abstract snowflake sugar cookie using royal icing flooding and color-pulling techniques.

Supply List

Sugar cookies in the shape of snowflakes
Royal Icing (Recipe)
Gel colors
4 piping bags
1 tall glass
Toothpicks
Scissors
Water
Paper towels
Small bowls to mix colors into the royal icing
Spoons

Instructions

  • Split the royal icing into 4 small bowls. Color the icing using gel colors of your choice, and stir with a spoon.
    Bowl of white icing being mixed with blue gel color
  • Check for the correct flooding consistency: take some icing on a spatula and drop it back into the bowl. If it sinks after a full count of 10, the icing is thin enough for flooding.
    Checking consistency of turquoise royal icing in a glass bowl
  • Place a pastry bag over a tall glass and “cuff” the excess over the edge. Fill the bag 1⁄2 to 2⁄3 full.
    Filling a pastry bag placed over a glass
  • Squeeze the filled pastry bag to remove air bubbles, then twist and tie off the end.
    Hand holding a blue piping bag, squeezing out air bubbles
  • Repeat this process for all the colors.
    Snowflake cookie with three piping bags of blue, white, and teal icing
  • Cradle the pastry bag against your palm between your thumb and fingers. Squeeze to control the flow of icing. Start by outlining your cookie, keeping the icing about 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 of an inch from the edge.
    Piping white icing outline on a snowflake-shaped cookie
  • Once outlined, use the flood icing and a scribe or toothpick to pull colors together.
    Piping black icing details on a snowflake cookie with blue and white icing

Products Used

• Artisan Accents: Gel colors (black, blue, turquoise)