Icing Marbling Techniques

It s called marbling feathering or swirling which is basically when one or more colors of icing are applied to a base coat of icing and then a toothpick cake tester pin or skewer is dragged through the icing to create a marbled or swirly effect.

Icing marbling techniques.

Cut off any excess icing with a small palette knife and decorate the edge of the cake board with a 15mm satin jade ribbon attaching it with double sided tape. Marbling royal icing is easy to d. Fill your piping bags with the coloured royal icing. First outline and flood your cookie with the base colour.

Now on to the marbling. Decide which colours you want to use for decorating and divide the royal icing into as many bowls. To add food coloring separate icing into bowls and add the desired amount of coloring to each bowl incorporating using a rubber. We all know decorating sugar cookies with royal icing can be tedious especially when you have a lot to make and decorate.

Marbling royal icing is easy to d. If you prefer not to cover the board in icing use a coloured board to match the colour theme of your cake. Mix in your food colouring until you ve achieved the colours you like.