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Brush Embroidery Tutorial

Brush Embroidery Tutorial

Brush embroidery is one of my favorite decorating techniques. It might look complicated at first, but it’s very simple to do! See my tutorial below.

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To begin, fill a decorating bag fitted with a tip 3 with flood consistency royal icing. The color shown here is Wilton delphinium blue.
I’m working on a 3″ round sugar cookie. My cookie and royal icing recipe are available here in my shop. Outline the cookie and flood it immediately. Work quickly so that the outline blends in with the rest of the icing. This way the outline won’t be visible when the icing dries. Visit my shop for a video tutorial on flooding with royal icing.
Before you begin, have a small container of water ready along with a paper towel to blot your brush. Fill a decorating bag fitted with a  round tip #2 with stiff consistency white icing. Stiff consistency icing is what I refer to when the icing comes off of the mixer, no additional water needed.
Pipe a flower petal using a zigzag motion to achieve a ruffled look.
Immediately dip your brush into the water and blot it on the paper towel. The brush shown here is the square tip brush from the Wilton 3 pc. Decorator Brush Set. Brush the icing toward the bottom of the petal. Work on one petal at a time so that the icing does not have time to dry before you brush it.
Repeat these steps for the inner petals.
Let the icing dry for about an hour before handling the cookie.

There is now a brush embroidery video tutorial available in my shop!
 
 

Amber Spiegel, founder of SweetAmbs, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and the author of Cookie Art: Sweet Designs for Special Occasions. Amber has over 12 years of cookie decorating experience and has traveled the world teaching others how to decorate beautiful cookies on their own.

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