Decorating Techniques: Wet-on-Wet

One fun technique that you can try on your cookies is creating a bubble like appearance on the cookie. I'm Maddie Gartmann, and today I'm gonna show you how to create bubbles on your cookie. So we're going to use a beer mug cookie in honor of the upcoming St. Patrick's Day. And first we're just going to outline and flood our cookie as normal. The technique that we're going to be using is called wet on wet which means we're going to be working with a lot of flood icing and we're going to be working rather quickly. So I'm going to first outline my mug in white. This is going to be like the glass on the outside of the cookie. And give it its little handle. And we're not going to worry about the top of the cookie right now. That's going to be a different texture that we'll come back to later. And I'm going to do just the edge of this beer mug because this is sort of like that thick glass that's around the mug. It always has kind of a thicker bottom. And I'm gonna go ahead and flood that right away. And get all the way around the edges here. I'm just gonna turn the cookie. And we're not going to let this dry at all because we want it to all look like one seamless pattern on the cookie. So I'm going to go ahead and take this is goldeny colored icing to look like the actual beer. This is great for a wine glass or if you were doing a soda pop this technique is perfect. I'm just gonna flood the whole inside. And like I said, I didn't want it to dry in between the two layers 'cause I want these layers to kind of meld together. And go back and fill in any spaces. I'm gonna give the cookie a little shake so that it blends together and push some of that icing to meet with the edge of the cookie, of the mug. Okay, now here is the fun part, how we create the bubbles. We're going to use our white and our yellow icing. And this is our flood icing. Go ahead and flip it. And we're going to place the bubbles where we want them. I want one down here, kind of a bigger one. And as they float to the top, they get a little bit smaller. And then a couple more down here. Maybe one right there. And now we're going to immediately it's super important that you do this right away. You don't let anything dry. Fill that white bubble with the yellow almost creating sort of like a crescent shape. And then once it dries it all starts to flatten out and we have this really cool bubble like effect in our cookie. This is an excellent technique to try. It's called wet on wet bubbles and I encourage you to give it a go with your next cookie set.