Cookie Art: Painted Sugar Cookies from Martha Stewart

This is our kind of art project - the kind you can eat! Martha Stewart uses straight food coloring to get those vibrant colors and an interesting technique for applying them. Even with our limited artistic talent, we feel confident with this one. And wouldn't this look cute with cookies cut into autumn leaf shapes?

After cutting out the cookies, the instructions have you drop a little food coloring on the cookie and use a straw to blow the liquid over the surface of the dough. The food coloring sinks in during baking and the cookies come out with these gorgeous water-color patterns. You can even layer different colors on top of each other for a truly patterned look.

We're going to put this one in our file for the next time we have little ones in our care. This the kind of project that kids of every age - and grownups too! - could get into.

• Get the Project: Cookie Art from Martha Stewart

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My preschooler's class just studied Jackson Pollack for a month. Boy would they have loved to make Jackson Pollack cookies! Yeah, I know he didn't blow paint around with a straw and he's the antithesis of Martha Stewart, but that's who these cookies bring to mind.

posted by cmcinnyc on October 29th 2009 at 8:58am
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These also made me think of Jackson Pollack. Growing up we made Jackson Pollack ice cream where Mom would take a carton of ice cream, peel off the sides, and cut the ice cream in slabs ("canvases.") We'd take ice cream sauces and squirt/dribble them all over the ice cream to create very tasty masterpieces.

This was typically done when she was teaching art history but also just when we wanted a really fun dessert!

posted by percent on October 29th 2009 at 11:03am
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