4th of July Dipped Cookies with Royal Icing Transfers

First, draw your design onto your cookie with a plain old black edible marker. (For this video Sarah colored over the entire transfer.) You want to work relatively quickly, so that the marker lines themselves are still a little bit tacky pretty consistently across the design (think: if you pressed your fingertip onto the marker lines, you would come away with transfer on your finger); if you take a little longer to sketch out your design, just do a quick re-trace of the areas you did first to reactivate the ink.

Once you have a consistent ink line across the cookie, use a fan brush to tap a little bit of emerald green luster dust across the cookie, and gently use the bristles of the fan brush to work the dust across the marker lines. Once the lines are fully covered, sweep the fan brush back and forth across the cookie to remove excess dust. Those plain black marker lines will have turned to gold (errrr...green) right before your eyes, taking your design to the next level.