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Royal Icing Decorated Shark Cookies For Shark Week (Cookie Art Club Premium Tutorial) - SweetAmbs

Royal Icing Decorated Shark Cookies For Shark Week (Cookie Art Club Premium Tutorial)

Plaque shaped cookies decorated with roses, polka dots, and sharks. The cookie in the middle is decorated with a shark with an open mouth showing its teeth. The smaller cookies surrounding it are decorated with profiles of small sharks.

I decided to do something a little different for Shark Week this year and made shark cookies with a “SweetAmbs” twist!

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Earlier this year I made cookies for a 4-year-old’s birthday party with a dinosaur/shark/tea party theme. Isn’t that the cutest thing ever?? The cookies were decorated with wet-on-wet roses (like the ones in this set), dino footprints, and shark silhouettes.

When one of my subscribers requested a shark tutorial, the birthday cookie set immediately came to mind and I used some of those elements to create this set of shark cookies.

Plaque shaped cookies decorated with roses, polka dots, and sharks. The cookie in the middle is decorated with a shark with an open mouth showing its teeth. The smaller cookies surrounding it are decorated with profiles of small sharks.

I didn’t pipe the sharks freehand – I created a template and traced it onto the icing with my scribe tool. You can get access to my template by becoming a subscriber on Patreon.

My subscribers also have access to my Premium Video Tutorials, which includes a detailed tutorial on how to pipe roses using the wet-on-wet royal icing technique.

Here’s what you’ll need to make these shark cookies with wet-on-wet royal icing roses and polka dots

These supplies are available in my Amazon Store unless otherwise noted.

Supplies

  • Chilled sheet of cookie dough
  • 4” plaque cookie cutter
  • 2-3/4” plaque cookie cutter
  • Flood consistency royal icing in light teal, dark teal, light pink, dark pink, light green, dark green, and white (see list of colors below)
  • Stiff consistency royal icing in pink
  • 4 Tipless decorating bags
  • 4 12” decorating bags
  • 4 couplers
  • 3 decorating tip 3
  • 1 decorating tip 1
  • 8 bag ties
  • Scribe tool
  • Round brush (I used the round brush from the Wilton 5 piece set)
  • Thin artist brush
  • Chefmaster baker’s rose gel food coloring for painting
  • White powdered food coloring for painting
  • Black powdered food coloring for painting
  • Palette or small dish for mixing colors
  • Vodka or grain alcohol
  • Shark templates (available to my Patreon Subscribers)

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

Icing Colors (I used Chefmaster)

  • Light and dark teal = Teal Green
  • Light and dark pink = Baker’s Rose
  • Light and dark green = Leaf Green
Plaque shaped cookies decorated with roses, polka dots, and sharks. The cookie in the middle is decorated with a shark with an open mouth showing its teeth. The smaller cookies surrounding it are decorated with profiles of small sharks.

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

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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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