Advanced Cookie Stenciling Using Dual-Mode Techniques (aka Mod Monograms)

hi in this video we're going to talk about multimode or actually dual mode stenciling which is using different media both airbrush coloring and royal icing to stencil in past videos I talked about a color blocking approach and pattern blocking approach that use two different colors and two different stencils to create different patterns on cookies with royal icing but here we're going to mix it up just a touch more first question that might naturally arise is why the heck would you use two different media to stencil a cookie and there's a very good reason for that if you want to get depth of texture very very quickly it's nearly impossible to stencil first with royal icing and then lay another very different stencil that doesn't fit exactly on top of the original stencil to lay another layer of royal icing on top because that that stencil once you've stenciled a cookie with royal icing the next stencil won't lie flat on top of it so if you do want to create depth of texture with multiple stencils here's an example of what I call my mod monogram cookie it's nice to do a first layer stencil with airbrush because it'll lie completely flat and then you can put any kind of stencil you want on top of it so for instance in this case I airbrushed with this Daisy pattern first and then you can come back and then get a little bit of relief and dimension by stenciling with any other stencil on top and in this case I used an R to create the monogram so that's what we're going to do today multimode stenciling I'm going to try to replicate this cookie if you don't have an airbrush because it does represent an investment I think I paid about a hundred bucks for mine and you can get them cheaper you can also use those PMA PME sprays that come in a can and spree spray those through the stencil instead and that's a good good starter approach to replace the airbrush okay as far as stenciling on a cookie with an airbrush you can actually airbrush onto naked cookie same same way you can you can stencil you know on to a naked cookie with royal icing but I oftentimes like to work with a hard top coat for all the reasons I mentioned in other videos which is just that you are going to be applying some pressure to the stencil to hold it in place and it's best to have that icing completely dry in this case I started with a pink top coated cookie that's been allowed to dry overnight and I'm going to be airbrushing pink on top of it I'm wanting to note and when I first airbrushed you know this kind of took me by surprise I don't know why but a particular airbrush color is going to look different on different cookies depending on what the background color is so here the Daisy was airbrushed in pink and even on this s cookie I use pink airbrush color but because the pink blends with a blue underneath it appears purple so just bear that in mind that you're going to get a slightly different effect if you're changing background colors on cookies the other thing to note is that you'll always get a certain amount of overspray with airbrushing meaning that the airbrush color will kind of ooze out around the edge of this of the stencil you could mask off the entire edge of this cookie with tape so you don't get any spray on it or likewise do the same on the stencil but that's pretty tedious especially when you've got a big shape that you're doing so to to eliminate the issue of overspray and just to give you an example let me give you an example what I mean by over spread before we get too far along on this s cookie you can see some of the blue on the stencil hit the edge kind of minor but if it bugs you the way to avoid it without masking the stencil is simply to start with a cookie that's top coated all the way to the edge which this one is or to use gingerbread instead of sugar cookie dough because the pink overspray on this gingerbread is hardly visible at all so a couple ways around that the don't involve masking off the entire stencil okay so I'm going to put my Daisy pattern down and again it's important as with royal icing that this stencil sit as flat as possible on the cookie and that you anchor it in place where I see the stencil lifting I will try to secure it or rather you know press it down with my trussing needle so I'm going to start by airbrushing on this end of the cookie so I'll anchor here and then as I airbrush over this they'll push the stencil down on the other end and move all my cookies out of the way so I don't airbrush the finished ones um one other thing to note about airbrushing the airbrush coloring which is a looser food coloring than the typical gel coloring that I use in my icing will get airborne and it will go everywhere so I've got a particular set up here that I'm using today to prevent my kitchen from getting airbrush so I've got parchment paper lining my work surface I often do that in a double layer and I've got a little handy backdrop that I got at a craft store that just stands on end and will catch any spray that goes off to the side okay so got my airbrush I've got pink in it and as with the royal icing turning my airbrush on now and you'll hear a hum the food coloring goes in this little receptacle but as with royal icing I like to test it before I ever apply it to my cookie make sure I'm getting a smooth even spray out of it I've got this set on high and I might just take it down to medium by hitting the mode because it allows me a little bit more control and I don't want a heavy heavy heavy coat of the coloring so it seems to be flowing well without any spattering so it's good to go so I'm going to start on this end and in this case anchor down here so I don't get a lot of spray going underneath the stencil and I'm going to try to spray as much as possible from directly overhead this will also prevent more of the coloring from getting underneath the stencil and you can come closer to the cookie to that just concentrates the colour so I'm about three to four inches away whoops move the stencil not a good thing let's see what happened it may be okay put my airbrush down we're going to we're going to see what happened there it actually looks pretty good I was a little light here because I moved the stencil before I was finished airbrushing but for the purposes of this cookie I think it actually looks fine so I'm going to turn that airbrush off you'll see it's a little bit shimmery to start and I'm just touching the edge and it's a little bit tacky so typically I might let this dry for a couple minutes airbrush coloring the unique thing about it is that it dries really really quickly I might just let it dry for a few minutes before I apply my next stencil on top so there's no chance of smudging that underlayer as I said before I moved my stencil before I was completely done airbrushing so the airbrushed patterns a little leaned up in this corner so what I'm going to do to try to mask that actually is put oriented so it's down because I tend to think people look towards the top of cookies or Center of cookies more frequently and then I'm going to actually stencil the are on the other side of the cookie as opposed to the right side the left side to kind of cover up that mistake if you will so I often say that cookie decorating is the art of masking errors and this is an example of that so I'm just bringing over my stencil icing I'm gonna use black and here it's of stenciling consistency what I mean by that is that for every cup of my royal icing glue which is like thick luck paste I add at least a half a teaspoon of water or more to get it so that it clings nicely to an offset spatula but still spread smoothly enough not to leave lots of tracks so I've got a little bit of dab of black icing on here and I'm just going to put a touch down to anchor the stencil rather than doing one big full swipe to start I'll try to get coverage on every element of it I'm moving my turkey laser here because I see my stencil lifting there and I don't want the icing to go under it there so all the icing is on and I'm going to do one final swoop one final pass to try to level it out one or two final passes usually I'm taking the extra icing off the top because if you have too much on top and you lift the stencil as I've talked about in my other videos you'll leave Peaks it just looks less crisp and sharp and I like to clean my spatula underneath between swipes because if it this icing dries very quickly if there's any dry icing on it it'll kind of scratch the stencil and mess it up so it's nice to have a really clean stencil at all times again I feel I get the cleanest stencil if I kind of peel away the stencil so I anchor one end with my finger tip and pull up the other and there you have it it looks beautiful again I love stenciling some people consider it cheating but I find it gives really quick sharp crisp beautiful results really really quickly to finish off this cookie I'm going to come up come in with some icing of beadwork consistency blue and yellow to do these dots and I'll probably put black dots around the border of this cookie if I border it at all it's generally a good rule of thumb to make sure that the icing you're stenciling with on top is darker than the color you used underneath because there's always a bit of a chance of that darker airbrush coloring seeping into or showing through a lighter royal icing on top so I like to go light underneath dark on top my eye sinks are mixed to beadwork consistency which is relatively loose to get nice round dots but two to three teaspoons of water for every cup of that icing glue but before I get sidetracked onto decorating and detailing that cookie that I just airbrushed it's important to clean the tools that you've already worked with so this stencil here with the black royal icing on it I would just typically submerge this in warm water or run it under low flow water to dissolve it and then Pat it dry flat between paper towels like so you don't want to rub up and back against it or you will lift up edges of the stencil and then ruin it making it hard for the stencil to lie flat when you try to use it again later the other tool that's really important to clean out is your airbrush if the colouring assistant it too long as I said it does dry very very quickly and it can claw the airbrush making it more difficult to clean later and leading to spattering you know a clogged airbrush will cause a spattered flow rather than a nice smooth even one so we want to clean that almost immediately after use and to do that I have a squeeze bottle filled with water it just makes it easier to get the water into this little cavity here that you put the coloring in I'm just flooding that cavity with water and I'm going to shoot typically oops airbrush needs to be on for this anywhere from Oh about four day down PSA's of water through the gun you just want to you want to continue spraying water through it until it runs clear of any color periodically I'll also spray and blot the tip up against it it causes you'll see how it's bubbling at the top that cleans out the inside of the gun as well so probably need another couple of flushes through this receptacle to get it to come be completely clear I'm almost done with this one and we'll do it a couple more times and then it'll be it'll be good to go about every four or five uses I also clean it out with airbrush cleaner there's a solution for that and that also keeps the device operating happily and smoothly over time actually that's looking pretty darn good it's hard to tell but here I am on a clean piece of paper towel and you can see there's not much color coming out I'm going to set that aside and turn off my airbrush and will now continue with detailing this cookie and finishing it off and I get this wet towel out of the way for detailing I'm going to need my glasses so back on they go and as I said before what I'm going to do is just accent and accentuate the stenciling pattern with some bead work I did this in another video and I do it off and I like to create a little more interest in detail by just highlighting the stenciling patterns with more royal icing so the first to go down is my blue icing of beadwork consistency I love parchment cones because they give me the ultimate flexibility in terms of the opening that I have and for these teeny teeny tiny dots I almost need no opening whatsoever this is smaller a smaller opening than you'll find with any I'm available metal tip and that's again just why I love working with cones and for bead work again hold the cone I haven't opened up this opening at all it's just the natural opening in it beadwork you want to work vertically as much as possible so that you get really round dots as opposed to oblongs and I'm just going to trace around with the blue some of the petals of these flowers they airbrushed on and you'll notice on the cookie that I finished I haven't I haven't outlined them all I've just done four or five of the flowers on each cookie and that's all I'm going to do here I'm focusing on this one that wasn't airbrushed altogether well by giving it more definition because I think it needs it because the airbrushing is kind of faint here so again masking an error with other icing is always a good thing to learn how to do don't throw away the cookie or eat it too soon thinking you've made a mistake because most always you can recover from an error you'll notice again that I am rotating a fair bit and that's just so that I keep my cone out of my line of sight and I'm always able to see what it is I'm doing as I look over or my cookie I'm going to do this one up here and then we'll finish with some larger yellow dots and I'm going to do a big blue beaded border on this cookie since I've got the blue icing already done and at the right consistency coming out of my yellow also a beadwork consistency I'm going to put on slightly bigger dots in the middle of these flowers so I am in that case opening up the tip a little more wide that way I don't have to push quite as hard to get the icing out if you're doing a lot of cooked cookies how hard you push can become an issue because it just hurts your hand after a while it's a couple little yellow dots and for the purposes of this cookie as I said I'm going to do a bigger blue beaded border so I'm going to open up my tip even further and just dot all the way around the edge let me practice on my work surface first and see how it's flowing I really don't have to push the icing out at all because it's pretty loose and I should probably put them pretty far apart so they don't spread into each other again steadying the tip with my forefinger here I'm not squeezing with that and turning as I go to make sure my hand isn't interfering with what I'm doing you'll notice how the dots do spread more once they land on the cookie because the icing is relatively loose and that's why it's important to test a bit on your work surface just so you know how much they're going to spread and therefore how far apart you should place them and apart from the dot work the stenciling is pretty darn fast so it's a good way to churn out a lot of cookies if you have a big order as well again say for a wedding I think a black border would have looked better on this cookie just to kind of pick up and play on the black are in the middle of the cookie but this just gives you a slightly different border variation on this cookie I used a black icing they use an icing of outlining consistency that held held its shape and held called a nice tight line so the couple different bordering options but there you have it that concludes my discussion of multi mode or dual mode stenciling along with some accent work on top of the top of the cookies we will turn in another video to talking about stenciling and masking off stencils larger cake stencils in order to cover smaller areas of cookies till then live sweetly

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Length: 17min 13sec (1033 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 05 2013