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Disney Portrait Cookies with Royal Icing and Edible Paint

a photo collage of 3 portrait cookies decorated with royal icing and edible paint. The cookie on the left is decorated to look like a child dressed like Luca. The center is portrait cookie decorated to look like Belle with red glasses. On the right is a portrait cookie decorated to look like a young girl dressed as Elsa.

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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A portrait cookie of a small child decorated to look like a sea creature inspired by the movie Luca. The cookie is surrounded by painting supplies and royal icing leaves.

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.

3 bare cookies with outlines of faces drawn on them with edible ink marker. There are piping bags filled with royal icing surrounding the cookies.

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!).

A portrait cookie decorated to look like Belle with glasses. The cookie is surrounded by painting supplies

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.

A portrait cookie of a small child decorated to look like a sea creature inspired by the movie Luca

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!

A portrait cookie of a child decorated to look like Elsa from Frozen 2. The cookie is surrounded by painting supplies

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! 😅

A portrait cookie of a child decorated to look like Elsa from Frozen 2. The cookie is being held up in front of a window and the cookie has bites taken out of it.
A portrait cookie of a small child decorated to look like a sea creature inspired by the movie Luca. The cookie is being held up in front of a window and the cookie has bites taken out of it.

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.

A portrait cookie of a child decorated to look like Elsa from Frozen 2

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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