Tired of mixing a bunch of icing colors for your cookies? I know, I know, sometimes I get fed up with mixing icing too, which is why I made this video! Here, I show how to get highly decorative effects on cookies just by embossing sheets of dough and then treating the baked dough with edible food coloring sprays or paints. Easy, richly detailed texture without any icing clean-up – what could be better?!

An Assortment of Textured and Colored Cookie Shapes
An Assortment of Textured and Colored Cookie Shapes Photo by Julia M Usher

This technique is different than the technique I use for embossing smaller cookies in molds (see related video below), primarily because it uses non-oven proof texture mats and therefore requires out-of-mat baking and a recipe adjustment.

Textured Dough with a Little Icing on a Cookie Castle!
Textured Dough with a Little Icing on a Cookie Castle! Photo by Julia M Usher

Want to see this technique in action in a project (or two)? Check out my recent 3-D enamel filigree cookie box video (again, link below), as well as my upcoming 3-D castle and lizard cookie videos!

Textured Dome-Shaped Lid on Fancy Cookie Boxes
Textured Dome-Shaped Lid on Fancy Cookie Boxes Photo by Julia M Usher
And Lastly, Textured Lizard Bodies, Tinted Only with Food Coloring
And Lastly, Textured Lizard Bodies, Tinted Only with Food Coloring Photo by Julia M Usher

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