Piped Royal Icing Violas
In my last livestream, I shared how I decorated cookies with real edible violas (you can watch the replay here in the Cookie Art Club in case you missed it. This week, I’ll demonstrate how I piped royal icing violas to decorate these potted flowers cookies.
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Just like all of the cookies I’ve shared here over the last few months, the icing on these cookies is made with natural food coloring from The Sugar Art. The terra cotta color is a combination of their Sunny, Ruby, and Arctic blue food coloring. The full color mixing instructions are included with the tutorial in the Cookie Art Club.
I created texture in the icing on the terra cotta pot cookie by placing a piece of embossed parchment paper on top after applying the icing. You can find this embossed parchment paper at Sugar Love Baking Supplies.
I used white and purple stiff consistency royal icing to pipe these violas (you can read all about the different royal icing consistencies in my Ultimate Guide to Royal Icing). After the icing dried, I painted the centers with food coloring mixed with vodka. Read this post to learn more about painting on royal icing.
Here’s what you’ll need to make these piped royal icing violas cookies
These supplies are available in my Amazon store unless otherwise noted.
- Chilled sheet of cookie dough
- Potted tulip cookie cutter
- 3” flower cookie cutter
- Royal icing
- The Sugar Art natural food coloring in Ruby, Sunny, and Arctic Blue
- Impression paper (I used Quatrefoil from Sugar Love Baking Supplies)
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Tapered metal spatula
- 3 – 12” decorating bags with couplers
- 2 decorating bags without tips
- Decorating tips 8 or 10, petal tip 101, leaf tip 352
- Bag ties or rubber bands
- Piece of plastic wrap
- Scribe tool
- Flower nail
- Parchment paper or wax paper squares for piping flowers
- Vodka, grain alcohol, flavored extract, or paint powder liquid
- Paint palette or small dishes
- Round decorator brush and flat decorator brush (I used Sweet Sticks brand and Chua Cookie brand)
Relevant tutorial: Royal Icing 101 (available in the Cookie Art Club)
Want to make your own piped royal icing viola cookies? The video tutorial and recipes to recreate them are available to Cookie Art Club members and you can try it free for 7 days.
