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Cookie Stenciling Techniques: Fall in love with stencils all over again
Cookie stenciling techniques. This purpose of this page is to highlight some great ways you can use those stencils-in-hiding for sugar cookie decorating.
Highlights of this page:
-scraping royal icing
-sponging with food color gels
-using food color markers
Cookie Stenciling Techniques: the beautiful scraping method
Have you experienced the thrill of scraping royal icing onto a flooded and crusted sugar cookie? I’m telling you, this is probably my favorite decorating method (I know, I probably have said that on other decorating techniques. Just gotta love the all).
The heightened level of decorating this technique gives is beyond words. This is why it is a great method for special sets like wedding sugar cookies, graduation sugar cookies, or decorated baby shower cookies.
Here is a video I made for this method…
What you will need…
-medium soft royal icing
-flooded and well-crusted cookies
-flexible scraper
-scribe or palette knife
How it works…
1. Take a flooded cookie that has crusted well. You will be applying some pressure and you do not want to damage the flood layer.
2. You need a firmer royal icing. Not quite as stiff for piping flowers. Having the royal icing too thick will not allow the icing to stick to the flood very well. Having the icing too thin will result in it going under the stencil edges and be messy.
3. A flexible scraper or spatula is needed. This is important. The very best scrapers you can use for maximum success is something quite flexible. I always used to use a flexible silicone spatula. It worked fairly well. However, it wasn’t until I ordered a scraper from Cookie Countess that changed the game.
4. I am most comfortable using my Click-It! stencil holder. If I use a larger stencil, I use button magnets on a baking pan with the stencil over the cookie.
5. To begin, place the cookie under the secured cookie stencil. Take your scraper and heap a good amount of royal icing on it. Some artists will take an icing bag and squeeze it on the stencil. Whichever works for you. Now, scrape the icing over the cookie, using a little pressure. Scrape the excess into a bowl. Go back and keep scraping just until you see the lines of the stencil. Carefully peel the stencil up slowly by holding two corners.
6. After the stencil removal, take your scribe or palette knife and clean up the edges. I usually use a scribe and take extra icing from the edges off with a downward fast movement.
You can now either be happy with the way the cookie is and call it done, or add personalization, florals, or royal icing transfers.
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Cookie Stenciling Techniques: spouncing your way to a
perfect cookie
Cookie stenciling techniques with sponging is satisfying and rewarding. By sponging, it gives a unique texture. Like painting on canvas, you can mix various colors for a rainbow or tie die look.
See examples of this method in the video I created here…
What you will need…
-spouncer sponges
-food color gels
-flooded and well-crusted cookies
-cookie stencil/s
-foam plate
You can see I spounced too much coloring on the bottom part of the rose. Just keep sponging it off on the plate.How it works…
Take your food color gels in the color/s desired. Squeeze out what you think you will need. Secure a stencil over the cookie using either magnets on a baking sheet or a stencil holder.
1. Take your spouncer sponge and dip it in the food color gel. Do not dilute the gels as it can easily eat away the royal icing.
2. Tap the spouncer a few times on a clean area of the plate. Rub the edge of the sponge off on the side of the foam plate to prevent build up on the cookie.
3. Press the spouncer with gel onto a cookie, but not too hard. As you press, twist the spouncer slightly on the cookie so the color will stick to the royal icing.
4. You can either decorate over the design or leave it as is.
This gives a really neat texture.
I love the textured look on the bricks!Cookie Stenciling Techniques with Food Markers: simple yet
effective
That’s right. Cookie stenciling techniques with food color markers. Using markers is easy to trace words or designs from stencils if you do not have a projector for cookies. (See my professional, non-biased review page for projectors).
This video shows me doing stars in this manner. I used a white food color marker.
“If you don't have a white marker, oh goodness, you need them! They are so inexpensive and work wonders! The results stay bright white on the icing too. Here is a 3 pack I purchased through Amazon a couple of years ago. I use them steadily and they still work like new.“
- New Thick Tip for Smooth Writing.
- New Ink Recipe for Perfect Fluency.
- 3 White Marker Set
- Food Grade Edible Ink! Tasteless! Non-toxic! Vegan & Gluten Free
- Edible Markers can be used on most smooth dry surfaces. Including Fondant, Cookies, Frostings, Dried Royal Icing, Marshmallows, Donuts, Pastries and more. (Not suitable for wax surface)
Cookie Stenciling Techniques with Airbrushing: the ultimate method
It goes without saying. The most common method in cookie stenciling techniques is the beloved airbrushing. Nothing quite is as striking when it comes to decorating. As cookie artists, we love airbrushing cookies because
-it saves an incredible amount of time
-it is precise and congruent with each cookie
-instantly makes them professional
-our customers have come to expect it
Here are my favorite best friends when airbrushing. You see me tout them often in my videos! You can jump over to my Airbrushing Cookies page to dive into more information on this equipment and how to begin airbrushing. I also have a video on disassembling and assembling the stylus over there.
The PointZero set is loaded with everything to get you airbrushing right off, including bottles of airbrush food colors. You get 3, not 1, airbrushes too! It’s a killer deal!
- Professional-grade: The kit features the PZ-260, PZ-258, and PZ-276 airbrushes; a premium-quality set ideally suited for creating a variety of spray patterns, from fine detail to wider coverage. Kit also comes with an Elite-125X compressor that delivers excellent power (1/5 HP) with very little noise (55 dB).
- tap to read the details and what comes with this amazing and quality set!
The cordless airbrush is also a sweet deal. I love this little guy. It’s super easy to use. No cords. It will last long enough to spray roughly 10 dozen cookies, depending on how much airbrushing you do.
- Airbrush with battery
- USB Faster Charging & Longer Working Time: The airbrush gun comes with a USB charging cable
- Package include 1Liquid Extraction Dropper, 5 Spray Gun Cleaner,5 Wash Needles,3 Kinds of Capacity CupsUSB Charging Cable, a User Manual, A Pink Art Airbrush gun
You can see these two airbrushes in these videos.
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