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Space Alien Sugar Cookies | Galaxy Royal Icing

3 hexagon shaped cookies decorated with royal icing aliens and a galaxy design. There are 4 piping bags around the cookies filled with black, blue, pink, and purple royal icing.

I’m still learning the ropes when it comes to my airbrush, but I successfully added shading to the royal icing transfers on these space alien sugar cookies.

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3 hexagon shaped cookies decorated with royal icing aliens and a galaxy design

Here’s what you’ll need to make these space alien galaxy cookies

The recipes and templates are available in the Cookie Art Club

A group of bright green alien face royal icing transfers and white star royal icing transfers

Instructions

1) Cover the alien and star templates with parchment or wax paper.

2) Fill in the aliens with green flood consistency royal icing, avoiding the eyes. Use a scribe tool to help shape the icing. Allow the icing to dry for about 30 minutes.

A piping bag filled with bright green royal icing is filling in an alien face following a template.

3) Fill in the eyes with black flood consistency icing. Use the scribe tool to help shape the icing.

A piping bag filled with black royal icing is filling in the eyes on the alien's face.

4) Fill in the stars with white flood consistency royal icing. Use the scribe tool to help shape the icing. Allow the icing to dry overnight.

a piping bag filled with white royal icing is filling in stars on a piece of parchment paper over a star template.

5) Add shading to the aliens by airbrushing the edges. If you don’t have an airbrush, you can paint the edges of the aliens with the airbrush color mixed with vodka or grain alcohol.

An airbrush is adding darker green shading to the edges of the royal icing alien faces.
A paintbrush is applying green food coloring to add shading to the royal icing alien faces.

6) Carefully remove the royal icing transfers from the paper and set them aside.

A hand with gold painted fingernails is removing the royal icing alien heads from the parchment paper

7) Ice a hexagon cookie with black, blue, purple, pink, and white flood consistency royal icing.

A piping bag filled with white royal icing is icing a hexagon shaped cookie. The cookie is already iced with rings of black, blue, purple, and pink royal icing.

8) Use a tapered spatula to blend the colors.

a tapered spatula is blending the royal icing colors in a swirl motion on the hexagon cookie.

9) Place the alien on the cookie while the base layer of icing is still wet.

a hand is placing the alien face royal icing transfer onto the freshly iced cookie

10) Pipe 3 dots of white royal icing where the star royal icing transfers will be. This will help prevent the dark icing colors from bleeding into the royal icing transfers.

A piping bag filled with white royal icing is piping dots on the cookie

11) Place the stars on the white dots.

a hand is placing the star royal icing transfers onto the freshly iced cookie

12) Sprinkle the icing with white nonpareils.

a hand is sprinkling white nonpareils onto the freshly iced cookie
3 hexagon shaped cookies decorated with royal icing aliens and a galaxy design

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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