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PYO Cookie Palette.
These are among the many cookie decorating techniques.
This page offers an in-depth look at 10 ways to make a PYO cookie palette. Iāll show you the successes and failures of each as I place them āunder the microscopeā to see which method is the best.
10 ways to make a PYO cookie palette:
- Skittles
- M&Ms
- pipe and airbrush royal icing dots (royal icing transfers)
- airbrush dots on cookies with stencil
- paint royal icing dots
- use gel to paint dots on cookies
-make a print out via Microsoft Word or other software
-paint pods
This page covers 10 ways, but the 11th method would be:
- order pre-made color palettes from a supplier (I will be selling these in Shop Gotta-havs! before long).
Keep scrolling for lots of pictures.
Get your delicious cookies baked the easy and right way first.
*Here's a link back to PYO Cookies if you missed it.
About each of the compared PYO cookie palettesā¦
1. Skittles, easy, fast, no cleanup. However, you can see they did do some color bleeding in the royal icing after 2 days.
2. M&Ms are easy, fast, and no cleanup as well. Just
flood your cookie and place the candies in the wet flood icing. Let them dry.
Done. Note the green, brown, and orange color bled as well after 2 days.
3. Airbrushing royal icing dots is easy, and pretty fast, but has some cleanup. Pipe royal icing dots, let dry overnight, and airbrush them the next day. Another method is placing them in a dehydrator (like this one-scroll halfway down that page for my favorite) for an hour and let set for 4 hours to make sure they are dry.
*Hint--keep the dots on the surface piped. That way they won't blow around when airbrushing them.
All the dots on this page were strictly for demo purposes. You'll see they aren't very pretty. I forgot to take pictures before trying each method. Therefore they look rather messy as well.Check out my newest favorite 'toy'...What a great little piece of equipment that every cookier needs:
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4. Another easy way for your PYO cookie palette with airbrushing is simply using a stencil with circles. This is much faster than airbrushing piped dots. Fast. Some cleanup.
5. Painting royal icing dots is the same as airbrushing. With these though, you paint the royal icing dots with food color gel mixed with either Vodka, Ever-Clear, or Lemon Juice (donāt worry, the alcohol evaporates). You then paint the color on the dots. A little tedious and cleanup is needed. Time-consuming as well.
6. Using food color gel to paint the dots on a flooded and dried cookie is another way.
Painting the color on the sugar cookies is easy, fast, cheap, and does not much cleanup.
There is one caveat, however. The gel food color on a cookie is pretty concentrated. It will not taste good and also leaves the mouth stained.
I am an Americolor food color gel person myself. I love their bright and rich colors. This is not an affiliate link, but I purchase all of mine from Country Kitchen Sweet Art. The benefit of ordering through them is the shipping is $6.99 to free after $60. Not to mention they are a super company. Totally my go to for many items.
7. I came up with the idea of coloring a palette with food color markers. Easy, no mess.
8. Using an edible copier to make a PYO cookie palette is easy if you have a Cricut or Silhouette, or the like.
Simply go into the design program, make a rectangle and add however many circles you want for a palette. Change the circle colors to your preference. You will want to aim to get the deepest colors though. If you choose lighter colors, you wonāt be able to see them very well after painting the cookie.
Connect the shapes with the attachment tool in the program, then make them.
If you are including these in a customerās order, always put your business name on the palette before printing. Branding is super important.
After you have the PYO cookie palette in the program, it is fast, easy, and has no cleanup.
9. Use a program like Microsoft Word. If you are familiar with Word, setting up a cookie palette is similar. Once it is set up, youāll always have it. You can also make various color palettes.
How is this edible though? All you need to do is copy off the palette into an edible printer on white cardstock paper.
Why would you want to use Word instead of a design program? At least in the Cricut Design Space, they have a few colors to choose from that are vibrant/deep. Word is limitless since you can use hex number codes.
Brand those babies! Remember to place your cookie business logo on the palettes for extra exposure to your customers. Not to mention, it's much more professional.
Read more about branding to grow your business here at Talkroute. I'm not a member, I just found the article helpful in stressing the importance of branding.
10. Paint pots/pods are a good alternative and are what Iāve used for a good while now. You can find the empty pods on Amazon. I provided a link under the Amazon affiliate notification in bold below.
I take a syringe and fill them with the gel color mixture (not full-strength gel).
They are super because you can clip the line anywhere between the pods. They come in strings of 6 and if you wanted to offer 3 colors, well you just doubled the amount from 240 pots to 480--that's significant savings!
- Special Value Pack Our acrylic paint pot set comes with 40 strips of empty paint pots,6 pots for each strip. Totally 240 pieces of paint pots that will meet your daily painting, craft project use needs.
- Convenient & Durable Our paint containers with lids are made of high-quality plastic material, durable and lightweight, not easy to break. These empty paint strips are high transparency and help you to easily distinguish the color when using it.
- Good Sealing Paint Container The paint pot is equipped with a lid, which can be closed tightly by lightly pressing after use, avoiding messing up, opening and closing carefully to ensure proper sealing, ideal for keeping a small amount of paint fresh.
- Mini Paint Pots The capacity of each paint pot with lids is 3 ml. These paint pot strips are lightweight and takes up little space, easy to store and convenient to carry around when going out or traveling.
- Wide Application This mini paint pots strips can contain a variety of items, such as painting pigments, cosmetics, glitter powder, jewelry beads, powder and so on. These paint pods empty bulk also can be applied to arts and crafts projects, schools, outdoor sketching, art class and art festivals.
11. This is not in the video or above, but it is another way. Sorry, I've never bought them so I couldn't speak about them.
Premade cookie palettes. This goes without saying. No cleanup, no mess, fast, easy.
The con about these is you will need to a bit extra on the cost of the sugar cookie order to cover your expense.
PYO cookie palette. Now for the RESULTS...
1. Skittles
2. M & M's
3. Piping and airbrushing royal icing dots
4. Airbrushing circles on cookies
5. Painting the piped royal icing dots by hand with a gel mixture
6. Painting the gel mixture right onto the cookie
7. Food color markers
8. Using edible ink on cardstock through a Cricut
9. Microsoft Word on heavyweight paper or cardstock
10. Paint pods. Sorry, I forgot to add this in the video and take pictures, but it turns out the very same as the other 2 methods of using the gel mixture.
(Here is a bunch of inspiration for cookie ideas)
Here are the final results, side-by-side.
Keep in mind, that PYO cookies are simply a form of water-coloring since you will be using water. This form, no matter the medium you use, will not be deep and dark colors, though a few of them are darker than others.
UPDATE: I am updating all my pages. As I was going through this page, it dawned on me to use a round or star icing tip and make a swirl with thicker royal icing, like a toothpaste thickness with the colors you want to use for a palette. Let the flooded sugar cookies dry and swirl on the palette. It's done in one fell swoop this way.
I hope this has helped you decide which PYO cookie palette to use.
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