I decorated these wet-on-wet royal icing cookies in celebration of my grandmother’s 94th birthday, which was earlier this year. The roses are hand painted with edible paint from Sweet Sticks.
Watch the full tutorial and get the recipes to recreate these cookies in the Cookie Art Club!
You can watch this members-only video tutorial (without ads!) when you join my Cookie Art Club!
Get access to exclusive cookie decorating tutorials, my cookie and royal icing recipes, and individualized cookie decorating advice by joining my Cookie Art Club!
This post contains affiliate links. Read my affiliate disclosure here.
The rose design on these wet-on-wet royal icing cookies was inspired by a set of pajamas that I bought for my daughter! It seems that I’m always finding cookie inspiration in my kids’ clothes.
I used my favorite edible paint from Sweet Sticks for the hand painted roses on these cookies. I love these paints because they’re easy to use and they are opaque, which is great for layering colors and adding depth to your cookie designs.
The blue and white stripes are piping using the wet-on-wet royal icing technique. First, I piped a layer of white flood consistency royal icing, then while the icing was still wet, I piped stripes with light blue flood consistency icing.
Take a look at this post for my tips on working with wet-on-wet royal icing.
Here’s what you’ll need to make these Wet-On-Wet Royal Icing Cookies With Hand Painted Roses
These supplies are available in my Amazon store unless otherwise noted
- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (I used my chocolate cut-out cookie recipe)
- Disco Numbers 2 Cookie Cutters from Cakes By Ximena
- SweetAmbs Small Plaque and Square Cookie Cutters
- Royal icing
- Royal Blue and black food coloring (Ann Clark or Chefmaster brand)
- Edible ink marker
- 3 12” decorating bags
- Scribe tool
- Wilton decorating tips 2 and 3
- Couplers & Bag ties (I used Wilton brand)
- Decorator brushes (I used Sweet Sticks brand)
- Edible paint in leaf green, pastel green, light pink, dark pink, and white (I used Sweet Sticks)
- Vodka, grain alcohol, extract, or paint powder activator
- Paint palette or small dishes
Relevant tutorials: Royal Icing 101 (available in the Cookie Art Club!)
Want to make these cookies yourself? The video tutorial and recipes to recreate it are available to Cookie Art Club members and you can try it free for 7 days.
Let me know if you make this cookie and share your photos with me in the Cookie Art Club!