Oh all right, I give! These are insanely easy to make, and here's how: first, make a batch of royal icing and thin out to a flooding stage (where it flattens out by the count of 10, just like colorflow.) I use this consistency to both outline and flood with. Outline and flood the cookie (I do this with a plastic bottle like the ones found in the chocolate section of the cake aisle.)
When the cookie is outlined and flooded, take gel writers and make circle and half circle lines on the cookie, where you want the color to be. Then with a toothpick, drag from the inside out, cleaning the toothpick after each pass. Check on the other pix I have of the closeup of the tye-dye cookie and you'll see better what I mean. And that's it, you're done!
These cookies are not only cool and fun and very easy to do, but they have a special place in my heart -- when I taught them at Gilda's Club, a grandma with cancer learned them, then bought the stuff to do them and spent the afternoon with her grandkids making them. She died shortly after, and the grandkids were saying how cool grandma was because she could make cookies look like tye dye tee shirts. Now that's what it's all about!
I am so grateful for you putting these on here!!! My daughter is having a tye dye birthday party for her 7th and she is going to freak when she sees these!!! Thank you sooo much for sharing them! And sharing how to make them!!!
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