Paintball Party ... Paint Splatter Target Cookies

My oldest Cole requested a paintball party for his 13th party. Since he is now older I can't do a big themed party last past years. After the boys finished up paint balling, we headed to get pizza. My parents took all the boys out for Pizza at my favorite place that I had my birthday party when I was his age. At the party I gave the kids treat bags and cookies. I did like normal and placed a cookie on top of a cupcake. I made these target cookies with paint splatter on it. These were one of my favorite cookies!

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What you Need:
Circle Cookie Cutter
Royal Icing - Orange, Red, yellow, blue and white -uncolored (see recipe below) 
AmeriColor Orange, Red, Yellow and Blue
Food Marker Black

I piped each cookie with the white outlines. AFTER the cookies dry you add the details. When they have dried I took a black food marker to make a target on the cookies. When the black dried I then added the paint splatters with royal icing. Using a piping bag with each color I've a splatter and then a few dots to look like paint balls that splattered.

The cookies on top of the cupcakes.

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INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups butter, softened 2 cups white sugar 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

5 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS:

1.	In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
2.	Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
3.	Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

Julie Usher, she has a GREAT YouTube video on how to make, color and make consistency adjustments. 

Royal Icing what you need:

2 lbs Powdered Sugar

1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar

5 Large Egg Whites (or equivalent) 

Flavor to Taste

Gel Icing Color

Mix powder sugar and cream of tartar in your mixer, just to make sure it is incorporated in. Slowly add egg whites, then whip start of slow then go to very high speed. She says around 2 minutes, my friend had an older mixer so it took almost 10 minutes. You want stiff peaks that hold on and won't fall off the spoon. Add in your flavor, I would suggest you use a clear flavoring.  This would be the glue texture great for ginger bread houses etc.

Take 1 cup of royal icing in a smaller bowl then add your coloring, lightly mix so you don't get air into the the icing. I'm like her and like the gel coloring. 

For Top Coating - Add 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 tsp Water (This is if you don't want to outline and flood)

For Outlining - Add 1/2 to 3/4 tsp Water

For Flooding  - Add 2 to 3 tsp Water

WATCH her video on How to Top-Coat, Outline, and Flood Cookies. YES it is around 7 minutes BUT if you have never done this technique it's a MUST she explains it perfectly.