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Football-themed cookies...Score the Extra Point!
Football-themed cookies.
This page is dedicated more to sets of football-themed cookies. Have a look! The next page will be devoted to the making of many decorated football sugar cookies
What you will find on this page:
-Tips for making football-themed royal icing colors. Get an exhaustive tips list for RI here: Royal Icing Tips
-Inspiration for football-themed cookies
-Decorating techniques. See loads more ideas: Cookie Decorating Techniques
Here are my other sports pages. If it's not a link, the page will be coming soon!
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Football-themed cookies: tips for making football icing colors
The purpose of this section is to provide you with tips for royal icing colors for the football themes. Like...
-football brown
-field green
-black
I'll break in to say that if you need my Superior royal icing recipe, you can get it here. There's a long list why I call it superior: WeCookier's Superior Royal Icing Recipe.
For the world's best sugar cookies, okay, I think it's the best 😊, grab it here: Best Sugar Cookie Recipe.
Those recipes will give you the greatest building base for football-themed cookies!
Once you have these basic colors, you may choose to add in team colors. I try to be careful using too many NFL colors. Breaking copyright laws would not be a fun game to watch! Those who want to know all of the team's colors can see them here: NFL Team Colors. It shows the colors, names of the colors, and the hex codes. Please use it wisely.
Mixing Royal Icing for football-themed colors:
If you have been on WeCookier's site for a while, you know I'm a huge advocate for Americolor food gels. I do not receive compensation, nor am I an affiliate for them; I simply think they offer the most vibrant colors.
Brown
A good rule of thumb is for each cup of royal icing, work up to 3 drops of Americolor Warm Brown. This brand for brown has a reddish tint and makes it perfect for footballs. When I say 'work up to', I mean add 2 drops and carefully mix that before adding the third drop. You may or may not want the last drop, especially if you plan on airbrushing.
Want to learn all about airbrushing? Go to: Airbrushing Cookies.
Green
The same rule applies to the field grass. For each cup of sugar cookie icing, i.e., royal icing, work up to 3 drops Americolor Leaf Green. If you are even more particular, you can add 1 drop of Americolor Royal Blue food gel. This will give it a more grassy look.
The dreaded black
It really doesn't have to be so dreaded. It's all a matter of time. Give it a time-out! Too much black gel, yes, I use Amercolor, will definitely cause color bleed. Oversaturating will also
- a bitter taste to the icing,
- cause it not to dry,
- make it so it won't hold its shape
You are not aiming for black to start, but rather a very dark gray.
This is what I do.
For one cup of royal icing, use 1 teaspoon of black gel. Slowly mix it well. Your best bet is using a flexible silicone spatula. Scrape sides and 'paddle' the icing til the color is mixed in.
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"I see so many cookiers taking a teaspoon and mixing icing hard and fast. All that does is whip air into it and causes bubbles. It also causes the meringue powder to break down and can cause all kinds of problems, like tackiness when it should be dry on the cookies and holes once dry on the sugar cookies. PLEASE, paddle and scrape with a spatula, not whip it, especially with a spoon."
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When you see the royal icing turning a dark gray, it's time to put a lid on it and walk away. Let the color develop/darken for a period of no less than 2 hours. Yes, this will take time.
When I make black icing, I make it one day, then let it set overnight to emulsify. That way I'm not drumming my fingers impatiently.
The next day, if more coloring is needed, I will add a little bit and let it set for another hour. I continue until a good black is reached. Usually, overnight is all it takes for me.
Team colors
Now for the team colors. If they are darker and deeper colors, like red, I handle them like I do the black, the overnight technique. It takes longer, but you want to be pro, right?
If you would like to know how I make a bright red and gorgeous deep blue royal icing without adding a ton of food color gel, see my 4th of July Cookies page. It has video tutorials for each of the two colors: 4th of July Cookies.
Football-themed cookies...Let's kick off some Inspiration
Probably the biggest concern when decorating football-themed cookies is the fear of color bleed.
Since we are working with usually bright and deep colors, you need to know all the tricks. That is why I have written a 3-page hacks list. It took me a considerable amount of trial and error over more than a decade to overcome this problem.
Get your free download of this list on the Royal Icing Flooding page.
You can use white food color markers for the line instead of piping white royal icing. This 3-pack of white food color markers is worth cheering about!
- New Thick Tip for Smooth Writing.
- New Ink Recipe for Perfect Fluency.
- 3 White Marker Set
- Food Grade Edible Ink! Tasteless! Non-toxic! Vegan & Gluten Free
- Edible Markers can be used on most smooth dry surfaces. Including Fondant, Cookies, Frostings, Dried Royal Icing, Marshmallows, Donuts, Pastries and more. (Not suitable for wax surface)
This set was from my 'Tailgates & Touchdowns' cookie class.
Football-themed cookies: Cookie decorating techniques
This is the fun part. How to use Cookie Decorating Techniques and other Sugar Cookie Decorating Ideas.
A few techniques are used in the next photo, which include airbrushing the perimeter of the touchdown plaque, the wet-on-wet technique, and using a red food color marker. See my 7-brand comparison of food color markers to see my favorite one with brilliant colors!
The airbrushing of football cookies makes them pop and gives a realistic look, don't you agree? The play cookies were decorated using an outline consistency icing coupled with my PICO cookie projector. A must! See all of my pages about what projector could be right for you, if you are in the market.
As you can tell from the photos on this page, I like to decorate the footballs in different ways. I'm a PICO projector person myself. This is the one I couldn't live without.
- 3x Brighter
- Ultra Portable with Battery
- Wireless Smartphone Connection
- Multi-input Interface
- Includes mini-HDMI Cable
- Cookie Decorating...You get the most detail for your designs
This photo also shows airbrushing and using a projector. I also used royal icing transfers throughout this page from my royal icing transfer sheets, like the footballs.
If you are looking for a dependable airbrush that comes with THREE airbrushes and much more, you'll love the affordability of the PointZero. I've had it for many years now.
-3 airbrushes with compressor
-dual and single-action airbrushes
-6’ braided hose and a compressor-mounted airbrush holder for 2 guns
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