Octopus Cookies with Royal Icing and Edible Paint

ByAmber
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A plaque shaped octopus cookie decorated with royal icing. The cookie shows light and blue octopus tentacles dotted with gold. The base layer of icing is off white with a wash of watercolor. The cookie is surrounded by a paint palette, navy blue food coloring and gold luster dust. On top of the paint palette is a thin paint brush. There is a paper octopus tentacle template next to the cookie. The background is white and gray marble.

I hadn't felt inspired to make octopus cookies until I spotted this beautiful octopus painting that is now hanging in my house.

The video tutorial and recipes to recreate this octopus cookie are available in my Cookie Art Club.

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Blue and gold octopus painting on a dark blue wall

Here's what you'll need to make octopus cookies like this one

  • Chilled sheet of cookie dough (recipe in the Cookie Art Club)
  • Plaque cookie cutter
  • Stiff consistency royal icing plus water for thinning
  • Octopus template (available in the Cookie Art Club)
  • 2 decorating bags
  • 1 decorating tip 3
  • 1 decorating tip 1
  • 2 couplers
  • 2 bag ties
  • Scribe tool
  • Round brush
  • Thin artist brush (I used one that I purchased from the art supply section of the craft store)
  • Gold luster dust
  • Chefmaster Navy Blue food coloring
  • Chefmaster Buckeye Brown food coloring
  • 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

My videos on how to make royal icing and how to thin it to flood consistency are available to my Cookie Art Club members.

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A plaque shaped octopus cookie decorated with royal icing. The cookie shows light and blue octopus tentacles dotted with gold. The base layer of icing is off white with a wash of watercolor. The cookie is surrounded by a paint palette, navy blue food coloring and gold luster dust. On top of the paint palette is a thin paint brush. There is a paper octopus tentacle template next to the cookie. The background is white and gray marble.

Read my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about royal icing consistencies.

A close up of the octopus cookie. This cookie is decorated with octopus tentacles in light and dark blue royal icing. The tentacles are dotted with gold. The base layer of icing is off white with a light brown watercolor wash. The edge of the cookie is painted gold. The cookie is on a dark blue background.

Read this post to learn more about painting with food coloring on royal icing.

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2 Comments

  1. You mentioned using food coloring and vodka to make a "cookie paint". Do I need to worry about the trace vodka on the cookie with kids or does it evaporate as it dries?

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    1. Hi Emily! It evaporates very quickly and I give these cookies to my own kids, but of course that's up to you if you feel comfortable with it 🙂

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