Everyone loves cookies! Most people think of the traditional chocolate chip cookies, but in the world of home baking, many people choose to create cookies purposely designed to be iced to create an image, and then painted or colored in like a coloring book page! These are known as PYO or paint-your-own cookies.
Use a typical sugar cookie recipe, or use a gingerbread recipe for the holidays to start, then apply one of our PYO Cookie Stencils.
What You'll Need:
- A design! Choose from one of our PYO stencils and make sure they fit over your cookie - or better yet, purchase ones that have matching cookie cutters to ensure they are the right size!
- Something to 'color in' the design. Use PYO paint palettes which are like watercolor paints but are edible - you can also use the Satin Ice Edible Markers. This is what you will include with your cookie for your guests/customer to color in the design with!
- Stencil Genie tool
- Stencil Genie XTC cookie attachment tool
- Stencil scrapers - either use the Icing Genie or our Cookie Stencil Scrapers or use a knife or offset spatula!
Instructions:
- Make the cookie recipe of your choice and cut them into the desired shape.
- Bake them according to the recipe, and once cooked, cool them on a rack.
- You need to flood the cooled cookies with white royal icing – make this as flat and smooth as possible by using a thinner consistency and putting more icing down than you think you need. This smooth texture helps with the stenciling.
- Choose the stencils you want to decorate the cookies. If you are new to icing cookies, we recommend using a simpler design.
- Using the Stencil Genie tool, place the stencil over the cookie you want to decorate. The Stencil Genie attachment tool will hold the stencil firmly in place even when using a larger or taller cookie.
- Once the stencil is where you want it, use a small spatula to place some of the thick instant mix black icing onto the stencil. Apply more icing than you need and do so gently to prevent the stencil from bleeding onto the cookie. Start at the edges and work your way in.Top Tip: Don’t use too thin icing – this could bleed through.
- Using the scraper, gently remove the excess black icing until the design starts showing. Remove the stencil. This should have left a neat outline of the stencil on the cookie.
- Save any excess icing for the next cookie.
- Once the black icing sets, use the PYO paint palettes to color in the design.
- When ready to package your PYO cookies, first insert an edible paint palette and a PYO swab in a lip and tape bag and seal. This keeps the palette from transferring onto the cookie!