How to Make Beautiful Billy Ball Royal Icing Transfers

Do you want to know How to Make Beautiful Billy Ball Royal Icing Transfers? Here is another great way to use circle templates to make great royal icing transfers for your cookies. Colorful royal icing and a few colorful nonpareils or sprinkle mixtures of your choice will make these beautiful flowers to add to your cookies whenever you feel like making them. If you scroll to the bottom of this post you can see how I used them on some of my favorite plaque cookies. 

Let’s get started making these simple fun flowers!

How to Make Beautiful Billy Ball Royal Icing Transfers

Supply List:
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Royal Icing Recipe:

• Half a Batch of Royal Icing– 20-second consistency

FREE Billy Ball Royal Icing Transfer Pattern:

• Small Billy Ball Royal Icing Transfers
• Medium Billy Ball Royal Icing Transfers
• Large Billy Ball Royal Icing Template

Tools:

• NonPareils in the same colors as your royal icing
• Turkey Lacer
• Wax Paper
• Tape
• Foam Board cut into pieces a little larger than a sheet of paper. This is what you’ll use for the base while you make the royal icing templates.
• Piping bags – Tipless piping bags work great and sometimes I like to use decorating tips to make sure my decorations are clean and clear.
• Coffee filter and a baking sheet lined with parchment paper to catch the nonpareils that don’t stick to the billy ball flowers. 

Billy Ball Royal Icing Transfer Video:

Enjoy the video!

Begin by preparing the template.

• Begin by taping the pattern to a piece of foam board or the back of a baking sheet. You need something flat that you can move out of the way as it dries. 
• Cover it with a piece of wax paper and tape it into place. 
• Now for the fun part, mixing sprinkles or using colorful nonpareils. I usually purchase my nonpareils and then mix my royal icing colors to match so the billy balls look natural. If your nonpareils are a different color it may not look like a billy ball flower.
• Set the sprinkles and pattern aside while you make your royal icing.

• This flower is so easy to make and a great project for kids to help you with. Now be warned, the nonpareils can really bounce once they hit the floor so be careful and give them a baking sheet to help catch the extras. 
• Okay, pipe a dot on each circle and let it dry for about ten minutes. 
• Once they’ve dried for a few minutes cover them with more 20 Second Royal Icing and pipe a circle. You’ll need to work fast and only cover one or two at a time because once the icing starts to dry the nonpareils won’t stick and you’ll have bald billy ball flowers. Not good for decorating cookies.
• Once you’ve covered a dot or two sprinkle them with the nonpareils or your sprinkle mixture.
• Carefully pour the extra into a coffee filter or on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper so you can add them back to the container. 

• Have fun and repeat until you have a sheet full of beautiful flowers.
• Let them dry completely before you remove them from the wax paper. 

• Now for the real questions. How do you decorate with them? Take a look at how I used them on a few plaque cookies.

A little airbrush and some billy ball royal icing transfers and you can make beautiful flowers in no time!

Stay tuned for more royal icing transfers coming SOON!

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