How to Make an Embroidered Yarn Rainbow Cookie

"Embroidery" is one of my favorite techniques for decorating cookies. In this post, I share my tips and tricks so that you can create your own beautiful yarn rainbow cookie that looks like it's actually been embroidered!

Other than a steady hand and loads of patience, I share with you the two keys to getting all those tiny lines and lots of detail: icing consistency and piping tip size.

The icing consistency should be about the consistency of toothpaste - it will form a soft peak that curls back over but doesn’t flow back into itself.

The piping tip should be as small as possible that will still allow a steady line of icing.

Both of these tips are covered in the first 2:00 of the video below.

Recipes:

• Sugar cookie dough

• Royal icing in piping and flood consistency

Supplies:

• Yarn rainbow cookie cutter (can use any rainbow or basic shape)

• Gel food coloring

• Piping bags

• Sharp scissors

• Scribe tool or toothpick

• Turntable (optional, but nice to have)

• Food marker (optional - to mark the lines of the rainbow)