Rainbow Tie Dye Cookies!

This is a technique I’ve been wanting to try for a long time. At first, I thought that the best way to make rainbow tie dye cookies would be to pipe each color separately. The problem was, however, that I just didn’t want to mix up 6 separate colors and fill all of those bags! So, I decided that I would paint the colors onto the wet icing. This technique worked out much better because the colors came out really vibrant and it had more of a realistic tie dye effect since the colors bled into each other (the only time that I’ve ever actually wanted my colors to bleed!).

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Here’s what you’ll need to make these rainbow tie dye cookies:

• 3″ circle and heart cookies (my Orange Vanilla Spice cookie recipe is available in the tutorial shop)
• Flood consistency royal icing in white
• Stiff consistency royal icing in purple
• 12″ decorating bags
• Decorating tip 3
• Paint palette or small dishes
• Alcohol (I used vodka) or flavored extract
• Soft round brush
• Scribe tool

Colors (I used Wilton Color Right)

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green = one drop of yellow + one drop of blue
• Blue
• Purple = one drop of red + one drop of blue

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Begin by placing a drop of each color into a paint palette or into 6 separate small dishes. Add a few drops of alcohol or flavored extract to thin the color. Ice a cookie with white flood consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 3. While the icing is still wet, use the soft round brush to paint the surface of the icing. You can make a spiral or concentric circles, as you can see in the video at the bottom of this post. 

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Continue to apply the colors the cookie, rinsing the brush in between each color.  

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Once all of the colors are applied, use the scribe tool to drag the icing out toward the edge of the cookie.

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Allow the icing to dry completely, then add a purple bead border with stiff consistency icing and a tip 3. This step is shown in the video below.

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