Realistic Seashell Cookies Decorated With Royal Icing
There’s a new tutorial in the Cookie Art Club! Learn how to make these beautiful realistic seashell cookies decorated with royal icing and edible paint.
Display these cookies on a plate of edible sand made of cookie crumbs, gold sanding sugar, and royal icing pearls!
You can watch this members-only video tutorial when you join my Cookie Art Club!
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The trick to making these cookie seashells look like real seashells is to get the right combination of colors. I used red, yellow, and brown edible paint from Sweet Sticks to get this peachy shade.
It’s helpful to keep an image of a seashell cookie nearby to use as a reference as you paint.
Here’s what you’ll need to make these seashell cookies
These supplies are available in my Amazon store unless otherwise noted
- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (I used my confetti cut-out cookie recipe – available to Cookie Art Club members!)
- Shell cookie cutter (I used an Ann Clark brand cutter, but this shell is no longer available on their site so I linked a similar shape in my Amazon store.)
- Royal icing
- 12” Decorating bags
- 2 tipless decorating bags
- Decorating tip 2 (I used Wilton brand)
- Couplers & Bag ties (I used Wilton brand)
- Scribe tool
- Decorator brushes (I used Sweet Sticks brushes)
- Sweet Sticks edible paint in Red, Yellow, Brown, and Gray
- Vodka, grain alcohol, extract, or paint powder activator for painting (as needed)
- Paint palette or small dishes
Want to make these cookies yourself? The video tutorial and recipes to recreate these cookies are available to Cookie Art Club members and you can try it free for 7 days.
