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Paint Palette Cookies Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Edible art taken to a whole other level! This sugar cookie tutorials teaches you how to make paint palette cookies that you can actually paint with.

How to cut out your cookies, do royal icing transfers, trace images using your phone and how to make food coloring paint!

A super fun tutorial that's great for an art party theme!

26:43 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how create cookies that can be painted on with food color paint palettes
  • How to create royal icing transfers for delicate details
  • Learn how to trace designs onto cookies for consistent results

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making the cookies 0:10
  2. Making the royal icing 3:25
  3. Piping the white 5:27
  4. Royal icing transfer 10:35
  5. Peeling transfers 16:02
  6. Adding the transfers to cookie 17:35
  7. Piping the cookies 21:17

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.