Wet-on-Wet Snowflake Cookies

Are you ready for another marbled Christmas cookie tutorial? Two in one week?!
Well, I could keep this one until next year, but I'm sure I'll have something else to share by then, so it's now or never!

This idea crept into my mind that I should do an end-of-year cookie for all the kids in my son and daughter's classes at school.
And despite being overwhelmingly pretty busy this past week, once the idea took hold it was impossible to shake.
So I decided on a simple snowflake cookie:

Inspired by a Wilton design

Once they were baked, I thought - uh, oh ... not so simple.
But actually, in the end they were.

The beauty of a scallop-edged snowflake is that outlining them is quite free-form and doesn't need to be precise. (A perfectly round circle is much harder!)

Once outlined, I flooded and did some simple colour-flow / wet-on-wet techniques to finish them off.

Here's a step-by-step guide:

Wet-on-Wet Snowflake Cookies

1. Outline with detail-consistency royal icing. 
2. Flood a thick outline with flood-consistency royal icing in white.
3. Repeat with a thick outline of pale blue. 
4. Then with a deeper blue / aqua.
5. Finish with more white flood-consistency icing in the centre. 
6. Use a cocktail stick or scribe-tool to drag the icing outwards from the centre of the snowflake to the tips of the spokes of the snowflake. 
7. Then pull the icing inwards from the V in between the spokes. 
8. Then end result will be a delicate star-like shape in the centre of the snowflake. 
9. Experiment with different arrangements of colours and different directions of pull.  

They're not perfect, but they do have a natural-looking appeal... and were perfectly-well received!

The cookie dough used was this chocolate and ginger recipe.

Happy decorating!

xxM