Today, we're going to make home made sprinkles in whatever colour you want. This is excellent for when you can't find the colour you need in stores. It's also a cheaper option to store bought sprinkles & personally I think it tastes better too.
After colouring the leftover royal icing & placing it in ziplock bags, snip off the tip of the bag & pipe thin lines on a sheet of parchment paper. Again, if you want to be more accurate you could use a piping nozzle.
Leave this to dry for a few hours or overnight. When it's properly dried, it should just slide off the parchment if you hold up the edges of the paper along the length of the lines of icing. See how it collects together?
Lift the opposite side of the paper & those lines will slide off too, collecting in the center.
Once you have it in a 'bundle', get a sharp, straight edged knife & cut into sprinkle sized lengths - or whatever length you require.
If you're really obsessive, you might want to leave out the blobs at the ends but don't throw them away. I'll show you what to do with them in the last segment of this series.
So there, you have it, easy, homemade sprinkles! Leave each colour seperate or mix them up if that's what you prefer.
Now, after I had already chopped up the white, I had an idea to make metallic sprinkles. So the way I did this was a bit messy - but it still worked! I simply painted the sprinkles with a gold luster dust & alcohol mix, but I think a better option would have been to paint them before cutting.
Well, that's it for now. I hope you found it helpful. As usual I would love to hear your feedback. Enjoy!
Until next time,
Jessica ❤️❤️
