My oldest daughter asked for rainbow cookies to share with her class for her birthday last year and she asked for rainbow cookies again this year. I used the rainbow cookie cutter from the Wilton 3 Piece St. Patrick's Day Cookie Cutter Set. I outlined the clouds in white and then filled them with white, flood consistency royal icing. I let these dry for a couple of hours and then piped on the rainbow with a Wilton #13 star tip. I made sure the royal icing was a stiff consistency so that the stars would keep their shape. This was actually a very easy project. Mixing the different colors and piping the stars took some time, but it wasn't that bad.To obtain the pastel colors I used the following Americolor food gels:
- Pink: Dusty pink with a very small amount of royal blue (I used a tiny drop added with a toothpick)
- Orange: Orange with a very small amount of dusty pink
- Yellow: 1/3 Lemon yellow and 2/3 Egg Yellow
- Green: Avocado with a small amount of Leaf Green
- Blue: Sky Blue
- Purple: Dusty Pink, Sky Blue, and Royal Purple
I used Sweet Sugar Belle's trick that she describes here here to make the icing colors match.
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