Uploaded June 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Tired of mixing a bunch of icing colors for your cookies? I know, I know, sometimes I get fed up with mixing icing too, which is why I made this video! Here, I show how to get highly decorative effects on cookies just by embossing sheets of dough and then treating the baked dough with edible food coloring sprays or paints. Easy, richly detailed texture without any icing clean-up – what could be better?!
This technique is different than the technique I use for embossing smaller cookies in molds (see related video below), primarily because it uses non-oven proof texture mats and therefore requires out-of-mat baking and a recipe adjustment.
If you want to see this technique in action in a project (or two), check out my recent 3-D enamel filigree cookie box video, as well as my upcoming 3-D castle and lizard cookie videos (links below).
IF YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO, please give it a like and subscribe to my channel. It is only through your support that I can afford to make more videos. THANK YOU!
RELATED LINKS:
Gingerbread recipe: juliausher.com/blog/more/cutout_cookie_gingerbread (NOTE: To ensure super sharp impressions when out-of-mold or out-of-mat baking, reduce the baking soda in this recipe by half.)
How to Make Embossed (aka Molded) Cookies video: tinyurl.com/pdt96bh
How to Contour Cookie Dough video: tinyurl.com/q5ezswr
3-D Enamel Filigree Cookie Box video: tinyurl.com/kjfzhh4
3-D Cookie Castle video: COMING SOON!
3-D Cookie Lizard video: COMING SOON!
SugarVeil Lace Mat source: tinyurl.com/o5hedun
Fluted Round Cutter Set source: tinyurl.com/m3k5mmg
Plain Round Cutter Set source: tinyurl.com/l9h8z9s
Large (2 3/8-inch/60-mm) Silicone Hemisphere Mold source (for shaping the box lids and lizard body): pastrychef.com/SILICONE-MOLD--HALF-SPHERES_p_1302.html
CK Products Brick Texture Mat source: tinyurl.com/pkmsrzz (NOTE: My mistake in the video; I used this CK Products mat not a Wilton mat! Sorry, CK!)
Tall (2- and 3-inch diameter) Ring Mold source (for shaping cylindrical cookies, like the castle walls): tinyurl.com/nnbf5gy
CK Products Super Gold Luster Dust source: tinyurl.com/pdgdm5w (NOTE: Their Antique Gold is nice too!)
Pearl Luster Spray source (one of many): tinyurl.com/k6z2cos
TO PURCHASE MY 4-HOUR VIDEO COOKIE DECORATING COURSE, MY BOOKS, OR APP:
juliausher.com/store
NOTE: My DVD was discontinued on November 1, 2014. Select videos will be migrated to YouTube over time, but my app will remain the only place where you can still purchase/see all 15 videos in my original DVD series.
TO JOIN COOKIE CONNECTION, MY ONLINE COOKIE DECORATING COMMUNITY:
cookieconnection.juliausher.com/home
TO HANG OUT WITH ME ON THE WEB:
My site/blog: juliausher.com
Facebook: facebook.com/JuliaMUsherFanPage
Twitter: twitter.com/JuliaMUsher
Pinterest: pinterest.com/juliamusher
Google+: plus.google.com/+JuliaMUsher1/posts
CREDITS:
Music by: Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com
Videography/Editing by: Kat Touschner, youtube.com/user/kattouschner
Tired of mixing a bunch of icing colors for your cookies? I know, I know, sometimes I get fed up with mixing icing too, which is why I made this video! Here, I show how to get highly decorative effects on cookies just by embossing sheets of dough and then treating the baked dough with edible food coloring sprays or paints. Easy, richly detailed texture without any icing clean-up – what could be better?!
This technique is different than the technique I use for embossing smaller cookies in molds (see related video below), primarily because it uses non-oven proof texture mats and therefore requires out-of-mat baking and a recipe adjustment.
If you want to see this technique in action in a project (or two), check out my recent 3-D enamel filigree cookie box video, as well as my upcoming 3-D castle and lizard cookie videos (links below).
IF YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO, please give it a like and subscribe to my channel. It is only through your support that I can afford to make more videos. THANK YOU!
RELATED LINKS:
Gingerbread recipe: juliausher.com/blog/more/cutout_cookie_gingerbread (NOTE: To ensure super sharp impressions when out-of-mold or out-of-mat baking, reduce the baking soda in this recipe by half.)
How to Make Embossed (aka Molded) Cookies video: tinyurl.com/pdt96bh
How to Contour Cookie Dough video: tinyurl.com/q5ezswr
3-D Enamel Filigree Cookie Box video: tinyurl.com/kjfzhh4
3-D Cookie Castle video: COMING SOON!
3-D Cookie Lizard video: COMING SOON!
SugarVeil Lace Mat source: tinyurl.com/o5hedun
Fluted Round Cutter Set source: tinyurl.com/m3k5mmg
Plain Round Cutter Set source: tinyurl.com/l9h8z9s
Large (2 3/8-inch/60-mm) Silicone Hemisphere Mold source (for shaping the box lids and lizard body): pastrychef.com/SILICONE-MOLD--HALF-SPHERES_p_1302.html
CK Products Brick Texture Mat source: tinyurl.com/pkmsrzz (NOTE: My mistake in the video; I used this CK Products mat not a Wilton mat! Sorry, CK!)
Tall (2- and 3-inch diameter) Ring Mold source (for shaping cylindrical cookies, like the castle walls): tinyurl.com/nnbf5gy
CK Products Super Gold Luster Dust source: tinyurl.com/pdgdm5w (NOTE: Their Antique Gold is nice too!)
Pearl Luster Spray source (one of many): tinyurl.com/k6z2cos
TO PURCHASE MY 4-HOUR VIDEO COOKIE DECORATING COURSE, MY BOOKS, OR APP:
juliausher.com/store
NOTE: My DVD was discontinued on November 1, 2014. Select videos will be migrated to YouTube over time, but my app will remain the only place where you can still purchase/see all 15 videos in my original DVD series.
TO JOIN COOKIE CONNECTION, MY ONLINE COOKIE DECORATING COMMUNITY:
cookieconnection.juliausher.com/home
TO HANG OUT WITH ME ON THE WEB:
My site/blog: juliausher.com
Facebook: facebook.com/JuliaMUsherFanPage
Twitter: twitter.com/JuliaMUsher
Pinterest: pinterest.com/juliamusher
Google+: plus.google.com/+JuliaMUsher1/posts
CREDITS:
Music by: Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com
Videography/Editing by: Kat Touschner, youtube.com/user/kattouschner
