My calico cat Missy is so sweet and pretty that she needed her own cookie 🙂 I painted her with a combination of powdered and gel food coloring and decorated the cookie with royal icing roses. Watch the full video tutorial and get the supply list to make your own Calico Cat Cookies with Royal Icing Roses!
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Here's what you'll need to make Calico Cat Cookies with Royal Icing:
- Chilled sheet of cookie dough
- Plaque cookie cutter
- Stiff consistency royal icing plus water for thinning
- Decorating bags
- Decorating tip 3
- Decorating tip 101
- Decorating tip 352
- Couplers
- Flower nail
- Parchment paper or wax paper squares
- Bag ties
- Scribe tool
- Round brush
- Thin brush
- White, black, and red matte color dust
- Wilton pink color dust
- Gold luster dust
- Chefmaster food coloring:
- Sunset Orange
- Lemon Yellow
- Rose Pink
- Forest Green
- Strong vodka or grain alcohol (I use alcohol when I paint on royal icing because it evaporates very quickly, which means that the liquid won’t dissolve the icing.)
- Paint palette or small dish
- Cat template (use mine from the Cookie Art Club or print a photo of your cat)
Read my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about royal icing consistencies.
Hi Amber,
I'm a new subscriber and have enjoyed watching your videos and learning your techniques. I'm trying to recreate the color of green you used for the leaves on the calico cat
frame. It is such a realistic shade of green and I've tried mixing rose pink and a forest green together but my result has much more blue undertone. I even purchased the same brand as you because I wasn't getting it with what I have. Could you advise me on the amounts of each color you're using. Thanks so much.
Patty
Hi Patty! I'm so glad you have been enjoying my videos. I colored the icing by eye so I don't remember the exact amounts that I used, but it sounds like you'll need to add more of the pink food coloring. If you have yellow food coloring on hand you can also try adding a tiny drop of that 🙂