Chalkboard Cookies with Edible Chalk {DIY}

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 Getting the kids involved with these chalkboard cookies with edible chalk is perfect! It’s not only fun to make this recipe with the kids but to eat them as well. Not only are they delicious, but chalkboard cookies are also art projects. We like to write little notes on our chalkboard cookies, but you can also draw pictures as well.

This is one of those times when playing with your food is highly encouraged. Make these chalkboard cookies with edible chalk to express your feelings on any holiday. They make the perfect teacher gift for your child, too! This is one of those baking projects that is SO much fun.

You will have a blast making the cookies and eating them but designing and decorating them is such a treat. There are a few things you might need that aren’t on the average baking list. Wilton Meringue Powder, black food coloring, and bright white candy melts are the oddball ingredients here, but they’re simple to order online or pick up at a specialty store.

You’ll also want to have straws on hand to use as your edible chalk molds!

Chalkboard Cookies Ingredients

The ingredients of the cookie itself won’t matter much, though simple sugar cookies work best. For this particular recipe, the icing is what matters most of all. You will need to make royal icing which is made with powdered sugar, water, and a few other ingredients that give it the black color we want.

After that, edible chalk is the next most important. Simple candy melts will help get the job done, and how you make them will turn them into fun, edible treats.

Chalkboard Cookies Tutorial – DIY

Make sugar cookies according to the directions.

Make Black Royal Icing

In a large bowl, mix sugar, meringue, and cocoa.

Add water, and beat on low for about 10 minutes.

Add black food coloring until the color is evenly distributed in the frosting.

Edible Chalk DIY Tutorial

Melt 4 ounces of white chocolate melts.

Pour into a piping bag and cut a small hole at the tip.

Cut wide straws to desired chalk length.

Squeeze chocolate into the wide straws.

Add a little white sugar to the bottom of a bowl to prevent the chocolate from coming out on the other side of the straw.

Make sure to fill the straw full of chocolate, so you end up with a solid piece of chalk.

Place in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Use a rod knife, sharpening steel, or dowel rod to get the chocolate out of the straw.

If you want the lettering to be crisp, you can use stencils and melted white chocolate to write on the chalkboard cookies.

These chalkboard cookies with edible chalk work with any homemade sugar cookie recipe! Decorate them to make Halloween cookies or add some decorations for any holiday.

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