Anybody Ever Decorated Cookies With Dyed Egg Yolks?

[blazedog]

BH&G has a Christmas cookie issue with some Santas decorated with dyed egg yolks which is painted on prior to baking -- at least that's what I am gleaning from the directions.

The pictures look lovely -- very shiny and glossy.

Has anybody ever used this decorating technique?

[Cookin4Love]

I used to do this all the time with my kids. They had a wonderful time. I bought inexpensive watercolor brushes used just for that. They come out beautiful.

[Beth]

Yes, we started with Easter egg cookies using a tuna-sized can with the bottom and top cut out and bent into and egg shape for the cutter. It was really fun to paint the designs on them.

[blazedog]

So is the final result as glossy and pretty as the pictures.

[Beth]

The egg yolk paint does bake to a glossy finish. You need to have a good bit of coloring in the paint to get a strong color -- but I think mine turned out pretty much like the pictures (except one time when the colors were a bit pale).

[Cookin4Love]

Yes, they are beautifully glossy. I sometimes topped mine with a bit of sugar as well. They're just pretty and they allow you to have really intense color without adding the sweetness of icing.