There are many ways to decorate cookies. You can pipe and flood with royal icing, another is to apply stencils to the top of your cookie, edible paints, glitters and markers, and lastly with airbrushing! Airbrushing can cause some people to worry about achieving a professional result.
Here, we answer some of the most burning questions newbies to airbrushing have so you can learn more about how to get the results you want on your cookies.
Is Airbrushing Hard?
Many novice cookie decorators see airbrushing as this scary thing that only true experts can do. That’s not the case, and it isn’t as hard as it looks.
You can practice using different edible paints, different cookie stencils, and different pressures on the airbrush gun, all using paper or even a fake, reusable practice cookie. Practice makes perfect with this skill!
How Can You Practice Airbrushing?
There are a few ways to become a pro at airbrushing with edible paints.
- The first is to practice spraying onto some paper or a paper towel. This will allow you to gauge your pressure on the trigger.
- Once you have mastered this, you can move on to a reusable practice cookie (we suggest the Notta Cookie). The "NOTTA" cookie is THE perfect practice cookie for beginner cookie decorators! All you need to do is wipe it off and start again if it goes wrong!
What Kind Of Edible Paints Are Best For Airbrushing?
- When airbrushing your cookies, you need to use something food safe (duh) and one that will not clog the flow of your airbrush, and offers color consistency. DecoPac Edible airbrush colors are deep and on-trend colors perfect for all cookie and cake decorating needs. The colors are specially formulated by food color experts to deliver intense shades and color consistency. Special care is taken to ensure there is minimal airbrush clogging.
- If the colorant starts to clog the flow, try to water it down (we love using vodka for this) and then spray it onto a surface. This could be some paper toweling, notebook paper, or the practice cookie that was mentioned above.
- You don’t want the thickness to be too intense, or the paint may be slow to spray. If it is too watery, the color may be diluted. So, test as you go until you get it right ;)
For more airbrushing tips and tutorials, you can visit Confection Couture's Cookie Airbrushing Tips or the Airbrush FAQs Page.