Painting Sugar Cookies with egg whites is a fun technique for decorating cookies with the kids. Follow my easy tutorial on Painting Cookies Using Egg Whites. Have fun decorating cookies at your birthday parties and this holiday season.
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Painting Cookies with Egg Whites
We love fun food crafts around here. Crafting in the kitchen has been a staple on this blog. In the years past, we have made fun food treats like Ice Cream Cone Fruit Cups, Gingerbread Boy Cupcakes, and Thanksgiving Ice Cream Turkey Treats. Kitchen fun never ends on the blog. It’s a great way to spend time with the kids or make a special treat for them.
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Sugar Cookie Dough – I used pre-made refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- Non-Stick Baking Paper – Parchment Paper or something similar
- Egg Whites – Divided – I divided three egg whites into 6 Dixie Cups
- Food Coloring
Equipment You’ll Need
- Paint Brushes
How to Paint Sugar Cookies Using Egg Whites
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Place cookies onto the baking sheet.
Bake sugar cookies for about seven to eight minutes or until they are somewhat done. The dough will spread and the tops will form a cookie crust that can be painted.
While those are baking, prepare your paints.
Add a drop or two of food coloring into all but one Dixie cup – Leave one egg white clear without color.
Pull the partially baked cookies out of the oven.
Let the baking sheet cool to the touch. The cookies will also need to cool off a bit so they do not crumble apart. This will only take a minute or two.
You can leave your cookies on the baking sheet or transfer them to a paper plate for painting.
Using your clear egg white, brush each cookie with a coating of egg white. This will seal the colored egg whites so they won’t disappear into the cookie.
Now, you can let the kids use paintbrushes and all of the different colored egg whites to paint their creations.
Bake their painted cookies for the remaining baking time (3-5 more minutes) to cook the egg white and finish baking the cookie.
Let the cookies cool completely. The egg whites will continue to cook as they cool off and form a glaze over the cookie.
Expert Tips
You can make many fun designs with a circle sugar cookie, but you could also color-shaped cookies for the holidays. We once colored Halloween-shaped cookies for a fun Halloween activity. Christmas-shaped sugar cookies would be so much fun to paint.
What Designs Can You Paint Onto Round Cookies
Some ideas we came up with are:
- sun
- emoji faces
- spider web
- beach ball
- basketball
- baseball
- painting pallet
- Earth for Earth Day
- heart for Valentine’s Day
- flower
- target
- Rainbow
- polka-dots
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Printable Recipe for Painted Sugar Cookies
Painting Sugar Cookies
Equipment
- parchment paper
- paint brushes
Ingredients
- 24 oz. Sugar Cookie Dough I used pre-made refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 3 Egg Whites Divided – I divided three egg whites into 6 Dixie Cups
- Food Coloring 5 assorted colors
Instructions
- Preheat your oven according to sugar cookie recipe instructions
- Bake sugar cookies for 7 minutes or until the cookies are just a few minutes away from being done.
- While those are baking, prepare your paints.
- Squeeze a drop or two of food coloring into all but one egg white. LEAVE ONE EGG WHITE CLEAR
- Pull the partially-baked cookies out of the oven
- Let the baking sheet cool off so it is cool to the touch. The cookies will need to be cooled off as well so they do not crumble apart. This should only take 1-2 minutes.
- You can leave your cookies on the baking sheet or transfer them to a paper plate for painting
- Using your clear egg white, brush each cookie with a coating of egg white – this provides a seal for the colored egg whites so they won't disappear into the cookie.
- Let the kids use the different colored egg whites to paint their creations
- Bake their finished cookies for 3-4 more minutes to cook the egg white, and finish baking the cookie
- Let the cookies cool down. The egg whites will harden into a nice glaze.
Notes
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