How to Decorate a Blackboard Cookie-Beginner Friendly Tutorial

Prepare the following items:

5 Tipless Piping Bags

Leaf Green Food Coloring

Mocha Brown Food Coloring

Bright White Food Coloring

Spatulas & pint glasses to fill your piping bags

Scissors

Step 1: Bake and cool cookies before decorating. Make sure cookies are fully cooled. If they are warm, the icing will run off of them. Make royal icing. Learn how to mix different consistencies of royal icing here>>

How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies

Prepare the following icing colors:

Piping Consistency:
Green
Brown
White


Flood Consistency:
Green
Brown


Step 2: Using piping consistency green icing, outline the blackboard, leaving a border around the edge.

How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies

Step 3: Next, using brown piping consistency icing, pipe a border around the edge of the rectangle.

How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies

Step 4: Using piping consistency green icing, pipe some squiggles in the main part of the blackboard. This will help to give your flood some structure, so that the icing doesn't collapse as it cools. Once you have your squiggles piped, flood the inside of the blackboard with green flood consistency icing.

How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies

Step 5: Once you have your squiggles piped, flood the inside of the blackboard with green flood consistency icing.Use a scribe tool or toothpick to move the icing around to ensure full coverage. Wait for icing to dry for 30-60 minutes.

How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies

Step 6: Using brown flood consistency icing, fill in the border of the blackboard. Wait for the icing to dry about 15-20 minutes.

How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies

Step 7: Once flood icing has dried, use brown piping consistency icing to pipe a border around the edge of the cookie and around the green blackboard part of the cookie. This will give the frame of the blackboard some dimension.

How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies

Step 8: Using white piping consistency icing, pipe your message on the blackboard.

How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies

And you're done! These blackboard cookies are perfect back-to-school treats! How to Decorate Back to School Blackboard Sugar Cookies



Cookies decorated by Julia Perugini of @juliascookiesaz





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