How to create the Traditional Christmas Palette
I L-O-V-E this traditional Christmas colour palette. It has the deep and festive vibes. Although these colour are not straight out from the food colouring bottles, it is easy if you just follow the ‘formula’ below. Each colour needs around a half cup of icing.
- White: Bright White
- Light Pink: Bright White + Dusty Rose + Small Drop of Super Red
- Red: Deep pink + Christmas Red+Super Red
- Burgundy: Super Red + Maroon + Christmas Red + Small Drop of Super Black
- Light Brown: Chocolate Brown + Super Red + Bright White
- Brown: Chocolate Brown + Black + Regal Purple
- Light Green: Forest Green + Gold + Bright White
- Forest Green: Forest Green + Bright White
- Deep Green: forest Green + Small drop of Super Black + Tiny drop of Sky Blue
My go-to royal icing
Actually, it is very simple. Basic ingredients are, meringue powder, icing sugar and water. This royal icing from this recipe will be enough for this project. I totally iced around 30 decorated Christmas cookies.
You can check out my video tutorial here to see how I make the royal icing in action. This is my go-to royal icing recipe.
For this Christmas cookie decorating ideas project, I improved the royal icing recipe by adding the following two more ingredients. For the extract quantity of ingredients, please check out the recipe card below.
- adding the white gel food colouring for getting the foundation colour bright white first, so that it will be a lot easier to dye into different colours.
- adding flavour to the icing by mixing 1/2 teaspoon of clear vanilla extract to make the icing more flavourful. You can also try using other flavouring, Lemon Extract or Butter Bakery Emulsion.
However, I have been using my go-to royal icing recipe without these two extra, it works perfectly fine!
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How to make royal icing
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 8 mins
- Total Time: 18 mins
- Category: Biscuits
- Method: Mix
Description
This royal icing recipe is smooth, versatile, and perfect for decorating cookies. With just a few simple ingredients, you can create a glossy finish for piping, flooding, and adding beautiful details to your holiday treats!
Ingredients
- 450 grams icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons meringue powder
- 6 tablespoons water (more or less, depends on the consistency)
- 1 teaspoon bright white gel food colouring
- 1/2 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
Instructions
- Combine icing sugar and meringue powder in the mixing bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment.
- Mix at medium low speed for 30 seconds to make sure they are all well mixed.
- Continue the mixer at medium-low speed and gradually add in the water, gel food colouring and clear vanilla extract.
- Continue to mix until everything comes together. The mixture does not look appealing at this stage. Just keep mixing until it turns into a paste-like texture.
- Then turn on the mixer to medium-high speed and continue to mix until the royal icing turns glossy and smooth. Add a little water at a time until it reaches the desired consistency.
Notes
- Add a tiny drop of water at a time to thin out the icing or add a small amount of icing sugar to thicken it until it reaches your desired consistency.ย ย
- If you do not have clear vanilla extract, the normal one works fine, but the royal icing may turn into a little bit on the yellow-ish side.
- Use gel food colouring to create the colour to avoid changing the consistency.ย ย
- Always add gel food colouring using a toothpick with a very small amount at a time to avoid getting the shade becomes too dark.ย ย
- Be mindful, the royal icing will become darker when the time goes on. ย Please make sure not to mix the colour too dark at the beginning.ย
Check out the Christmas cookie decorating ideas to try this year video
I hope you enjoyed watching these Christmas cookie decorating ideas as much as I created them. Of course, I really hope you are inspired by these designs and will try them out this year!
If you’ve made them, tag me @bakabeecom on Instagram to show me your creations.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year!
