Solar Eclipse Cookies

The next step is an easy one, just pipe and flood your moon. 

Trace your smaller cookie cutter with an edible marker. You may choose to do all your cookies the same, with the eclipse in totality and your moon centered. If you want to do some of the stages of the eclipse, you will just keep moving your "moon" circle over towards the edge of the cookie. 

Next start with the yellow airbrush, and circle your way around the outline of the moon. Once complete, switch over to the red, and airbrush another circle. Where the red and yellow overlap will turn into orange, so you don't need to also spray orange. If you are using a Cookie Countess airbrush machine with a quick connect adaptor, this is it's chance to shine! If you  have extra guns you can quickly switch between guns and colors. 

With red complete, you will airbrush one more circle around the edge of your cookie with black. To be precise with your color placement while airbrushing, you will have to be closer and more angled to the cookie than you would be if you were airbrushing the whole cookie, or stenciling. Especially when doing the black, as you want to just catch the outside edge. This may take some practice, but once you get the hang of it, is becomes second nature. Using the turntable helps a lot with this process as well. 

The next step is an easy one, just pipe and flood your moon.