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Food Coloring Pens Great for Cookie Decorating, Food Crafting, Pastries, Toaster Pastries, Candy, and any other hard food surface.  . FINE PENS | MARKER PENS | DUAL END PENS .. Refrigerate pens after opening, although it is not necessary this will help keep them separate from your other markers. I would also store these in a plastic zip lock bag to help from drying out. SUGARCRAFT'S HOME PAGE

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Write on any food surface firm enough to write on in true and vibrant colors... royal icing, marzipan, donuts, bagels, gumpaste, milk Jell-O, crackers, cookies, ganache, pastries, rolled fondant, petit fours, bread pastillage, fruit & vegetables, rice paper, hard-boiled eggs and white chocolate! Perfect for stenciling, stamping, or freehand.  . The perfect creative tool that will stimulate your imagination. Versatile, artistic nib draws fine detail, medium or broad lines, depending on the angle in which the pen is held. Wipe tip on clean paper towel during use if needed.  . U.S. Certified Food Coloring. Store in refrigerator to prolong use. Contains black, brown, red, pink, flesh tone, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

2 PEN SETS $3.99 ORANGE 2 PENS GW13 YELLOW 2 PENS GW07 PURPLE 2 PENS GW22 GREEN 2 PENS GW11 PINK 2 PENS GW14 BLACK 2 PENS GW01 RED 2 PENS GW20 FLESH 2 PENS GW05 BLUE 2 PENS GW02 BROWN 2 PENS GW04 2 COLOR SETS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST RED & GREEN SET $3.99 Gourmet Writer SET - Orange, Purple, Pink, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black, Flesh and Brown 10 piece $15.00 DROP IN CART HERE

They're using their Kopykake  projector to project designs  and images directly onto the  frosting sheets which are then  outlined with our NEW Edible Ink Pens.

Other decorators are free-hand drawing onto the Frosting  Sheets with our NEW Edible Ink Pens.

Creative decorators are rubber stamping designs onto Frosting Sheets for  their cookies and cakes. Then color design with our NEW Edible Ink Pens.

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Set of 10 DUAL END edible ink pens & assorted frosting sheets - Outlining or color cake or cookie designs on these assorted frosting sheets. Ink Pen Colors: Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Flesh tone, Pink, Red, Brown, Black.  Assorted Frosting Sheets: 7 1/2 x 10 Sheet, 8" Round, 3" Round, 2" Round, Business Cards. #FDP-FS $34.95

Filled with food coloring... Instructions are included on back of each pack. FOOD DOODLERS! Forget what Mom said - It's okay to play with your food. Paint a cookie or write a note on a bagel. Add a greeting to a dinner plate, or a funny face to a boiled egg for a lunch box surprise. All you need are FooDoodler markers and your imagination. These fun pens are filled with non-toxic, edible food inks and are perfect for adding decorative details to pastries, bread, cheese, veggies and candies. Add some fun to your cooking with FooDoodler® food coloring markers. Decorate anything from cookies to crackers. They will become available with Kellogg’s Pop Tarts®. So get ready because now it's a day for you to play with your food! HAVE YOUR CAKE AND PAINT IT, TOO.

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. Cookie Paint Box Kit - each contain 5 jars of edible powdered colors, a paintbrush and a detailed color instruction booklet. Just imagine what you can make with these! Add a tiny bit of water to a small amount of our powders and you have rich, beautiful colors of edible watercolor paints that you use to paint cookies.  Ingredients: dextrose, FD& C colorings. PASTEL Cookie Paint Box #CPBPA/ $16.50 RAINBOW Cookie Paint Box #CPBRB/ $16.50

Cookie Icing Mix Just add water to make a quick, delicious icing that dries smooth and white. It makes the perfect surface for painting. Once the cookies have dried, you can stack them or pack them for shipping without worrying about them getting crushed. Plus our Cookie Icing Mix can also be used to make icing for decorative piping.  Complete recipes included. Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, egg albumen, tapioca starch, dextrose, vegetable gum, tartric-acid, cream of tartar, sodium aluminum sulfate, imitation vanilla flavoring. #CIMIX/ $6.75

Fun Activity Ideas! FooDoodler® Markers are ideal for decorating sugar cookies with royal icing or without. Use your favorite icing recipe or try ours. Let the icing dry hard before writing on the surface. It's important that you don’t write on surfaces that have lots of crumbs or that are oily or wet. If needed, just wipe the tip with a damp paper towel as you are decorating.  . Quick Baking Idea! Use a store bought refrigerated sugar cookie dough. Roll out dough and cut with your favorite cookie cutters. Follow baking instructions on package.  . Want to decorate special-occasion cookies without mixing four colors of icing? Try these food-coloring markers. Used on top of royal icing, which dries  rock-hard, they’re easy to draw with (even for kids).
The store bought dough works great without icing.  . Don’t limit yourself to decorating cookies. FooDoodler® markers write and decorate on many hard food surfaces. Decorate a plate with a personal message before serving, send a greeting on a lunch sandwich, bread, bagel, cheese & crackers.  . Create Indian Totem Poles out of decorated mini carrots. Marshmallow cream works great for sticking them together!
Create a Snowman from marshmallow and pretzel sticks, create a winter village with graham crackers or toaster pastries, decorate them with the Food Doodler® markers, color the icing on your Ginger Bread house.
Boost up picnic food, coloring and writing on hot dog and hamburger buns is so much fun, potato chips and tortilla chips also work well. Create a 4th of July hot dog bun!
FUN GAME IDEAS!  On a paper plate draw tic-tac-to or checkerboard using FooDoodler® markers then color mini marshmallows or vanilla wafers in two different colors and use them as game pieces. Eat them as you play or save all for the winner. Try also hangman writing the alphabet on mini marshmallows or hard candies, animal cracker scrabble or other spelling games. Take the FooDoodlers® to a restaurant and play tic-tac-to on hard rolls or pancakes.  Helpful Hints: The FooDoodler® Food Coloring Markers are best when used on hard, non fat or glazed surfaces. When using FooDoodler® Markers on non-smooth surface such as white bread dab your design carefully, it is also helpful to wipe the tip of the marker with a damp paper towel as you color.  Clean up is a snap! As with any cooking decorating utensil, you want to keep your FooDoodler® Food Coloring Markers clean. Just wipe off the tip with a damp paper towel and store with other food items. We suggest this for separation purposes so they are not placed with other markers
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Alternative Icing Recipe: (I developed this one)
COOKIE ICING
The best part of it is that you can stack these cookies but the icing doesn't get rock hard like royal icing would to suck all the moisture from the cookie. Royal icing ruins cookies. It sucks out all the moisture.

I made some big Gingerbread boys with this icing. They had to have a yellow hard hat with a logo on the tummy. I used frosting sheet to make 200 logos, stuck them on with this icing, spread yellow hard hat with knife, then put it in a bag to make the brim. I also put it in a bag to outline. These cookies (200) went to Port of Trinidad...2 got broken! That isn't bad at all. They emailed me back that they loved them.

This icing is like that used on petite fours. It will crust so you can stack your cookies. But it won't get rock hard like royal icing does. I find it easier and more fun to work with too. This icing (as opposed to royal icing) is very tasty!
Firm Cookie Frosting: Try this, its very easy and you'll get raves!
Fondant Cookie Icing...For icing cookies (and for decorating):
(links go to the products needed)

RECIPE
10 parts Dry candy Fondant *
to
1 part water
Flavoring or this
Food Coloring

*clicking on a highlighted word will take you to the product if you need to order it.
You can make it thicker by adding more dry c. fondant. Or thinner by adding more water. Color or flavor as desired. I usually just add a little almond flavoring or vanilla extract. No beating necessary. Just stir until no lumps remain. This can be as thin as color flow and still won't run off the side of the cake.
I ice the cookies with this. You should have it thin, but not so thin that it readily runs off the  cookie.
For decorations, I put some icing in a dec. bag with a tip #2 for drawing lines and detail. Or you can paint icing on to decorate too, using a medium soft paint-brush.
This icing is like that used on petite fours. It will crust so you can stack your cookies. But it won't get rock hard like royal icing does. I find it easier and more fun to work with too. This icing (as opposed to royal icing) is very tasty!
* Dry Candy Fondant, available via mail order HERE... http://www.sugarcraft.com
 

Using Pens to make a picture... from Lynne:
  Place your wafer paper smooth side UP over any picture & strating at the top trace your picture w/non-toxic pens (aka: food doodlers). Make sure you put a wad of paper towel under your hand as the moisture in it will cause the w/p to buckle. This also means you must use a VERY light touch w/the pens. Don't drag your hand thru what you have traced - it *will* smear: ( I usually will trace/outline completely - let it dry (depends on your humidity factor - maybe 1 hr before going back to fill in ONE color at a time, allowing drying time between - again so you don't smear the color. Remember - use a very light touch especially when filling in. When you are finished, cover w/wax paper, place heavy book(?) on it for an hour or so. When ready to apply to cake, VERY lightly coat back w/piping gel - especially reach the edges - and place on cake. If desired you can outline w/small piping (border). Sometimes I do - sometimes not. I know of some people who put about 1/4" thick coating of piping gel over the whole drawing and feather that into the icing on the cake. I find this excessive.......but each to his own:)
 

Using Pens with Frosting Sheets (edible & not tough like wafer paper):
This is a message found on my message board from Carol
 

Question: Since I don't have my edible Picture printer quite yet, why can't I do simple pictures on the frosting sheets that usually are meant to go through printer, with food color pens/markers??     Now, what I'd like to know is if anyone has tried it. I used to draw pictures on wafer paper occasionally. I wondered if the pens draw easier on the newer frosting sheets. I don't want to do too many pictures this way (because, obviously, complicated pictures would have me drawing for hours), BUT I don't want to do them in icing starts/fill-in anymore on cakes, and as I mentioned, don't have my printer yet. Answer: From carol f-tx -      I do this all the time.    It works perfect for making the ribbon messages. I trace the message on the frosting sheet, cut it out and place it on fresh fondant/gumpaste and then trim the paste to the frosting sheet. This tie was done free hand...colored in using food color pens and gold highlighter dust. You can't dawdle with the color or it will melt...but you've worked with wafer paper and you use almost the same technique. From Cakeprincess: Using the Kopykake projector, put the Picture in the box and frosting sheet or wafer paper below. Trace the outline, filled it in with airbrush, put it on the cake. Done. You do have to work quickly, though. Sometimes I've airbrushed after it's  on the cake for that reason.

Frosting Sheets can, and have, been decorated with edible pens, airbrushed designs and even stamps.

Why decorate a frosting sheet?
There are a number of reasons why cake decorators chose to decorate a Frosting Sheet rather than the cake itself;
here are some of them:

• Decorating a Frosting Sheet allows you to make a mistake!

Just imagine, you're airbrushing directly onto your customer's cake and you make a mistake - you've just ruined the cake and you have no choice but to dispose of it. This would not happen if you decorated a Frosting Sheet, you would only ruin the frosting sheet.

• Decorating a Frosting Sheet allows you to decorate ahead of time

The Friday afternoon, Saturday morning cake decorating rush can be a thing of the past when you choose to decorate Frosting Sheets because you can decorate them ahead of time, seal them in their Zip-Lock bag and place them on the cake at the last minute. No more rushing and making hurried mistakes - decorate the Frosting Sheets throughout the week or when you're not so busy.