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Updated on December 2, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Paint Palette Cookies Tutorial

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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

Downloads

Materials List

Paint Palette Template

Bunny Cookie Template (jpg)

Cute Dino Cookie Template (jpg)

Dino Egg Cookie Template (jpg)

Guinea Pig Cookie Template (jpg)

Ice Cream Cookie Template (jpg)

Kitty Cookie Template (jpg)

Narwhal Cookie Template (jpg)

Octopus Cookie Template (jpg)

Rainbow Cookie Template (jpg)

Rocketship Cookie Template (jpg)

Stegosaurus Cookie Template (jpg)

Unicorn Cookie Template (jpg)

Entire Cookie Template Pack (zip)

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Liz Marek is a professional cake artist, sweet and savory recipe developer, and the founder of Sugar Geek Show, where she teaches cooking, baking and cake decorating through detailed tutorials, food science explanations, and kitchen-tested recipes. She has been creating recipes and teaching baking techniques since 2008, helping bakers of all skill levels gain the confidence to make professional-quality desserts at home.

Liz is known for breaking down complex cooking and baking concepts into simple, approachable methods. Her work focuses on helping people understand not just how a recipe works, but why it works. Through Sugar Geek Show, she shares step-by-step recipes, cake decorating tutorials, and practical baking guides designed to make professional techniques accessible to everyone.

Over the years, Liz has taught thousands of students through online tutorials, classes, and educational content focused on real kitchen results. Her recipes are carefully tested and written to help people succeed the first time they make them.

When she’s not developing recipes or teaching baking techniques, Liz also hosts curated travel experiences for women through her travel brand Soul Sisters.

You can find Liz’s latest recipes, baking tutorials, and food science tips at Sugar Geek Show.

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