Disney Portrait Cookies with Royal Icing and Edible Paint
These Disney portrait cookies were quite the challenge but I love how they turned out! I decorated them with royal icing and edible paint.
I created these for the Disney Yourself Collaboration hosted by Burnt Cookies by Murrah and You Can Call Me Sweetie on Instagram.
Watch the time lapse video to see how I created these cookies below!
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Murrah and Sandie got the idea for this collaboration from an app called Violà AI Artist which basically turns your photo into a cartoon character. It’s a lot of fun! I used the app to create the reference photos for myself and my daughters.
Once I had the photos, I traced them in Procreate on an iPad so that I could create stencils. I printed the stencils with my Silhouette Portrait 3 on mylar stencil material.
I used the stencils to cut the cookies from a chilled sheet of cookie dough and once they were baked I traced the stencils on the cookies with an edible ink marker.
The guidelines for the collaboration were to turn yourself into a Disney character and I chose Belle from Beauty and The Beast for my cookie because I thought I looked the most like her in my photo (and I do love that movie!).
I iced the cookies with royal icing that I colored with Chefmaster food coloring (this post from LilaLoa is a great resource for creating skin tone icing in a range of shades!)
Then I let the icing dry overnight before painting them. Painting the cookies felt a lot like putting makeup on them, so that part was a lot of fun for me!
My two year old daughter watches the movie Luca several times a week, so I turned her into an adorable sea creature 🙂
I traced my mermaid scales stencil with luster dust from The Sugar Art to make the scales and a leaf tip 352 to make the seaweed.
And my four year old loves Frozen so of course I turned her into Elsa (the Frozen 2 version!).
The shimmer on her shirt is Blue Pearl from The Sugar Art. I love the iridescent shine!
The girls LOVED their cookie portraits and were thrilled to be able to eat them – they would have eaten the entire thing in one sitting if we’d let them! 😅
It would take me a week just to list all the supplies and write out the instructions for these cookies (I think I had every luster dust and petal dust I own out on my workspace while making them!) but let me know if there is a product or technique in the video that you’d like to know more about.