Royal Icing is a popular choice for cookie decoration because it dries hard, with a smooth and shiny finish. It can also be used for multiple other baking applications as it’s totally customizable. Types of Royal Icing Stiff Royal Icing is required when making flowers, leaves, ruffles, brush embroidery, and decorations that need to perfectly hold their shape. It can also be used for assembling gingerbread houses. If you cut through the icing with a knife, it will not melt back together. The…

Make the perfect Royal Icing every time with this amazing Royal Icing with Meringue Powder recipe! Perfect for cookies, cakes, and all of your baking needs!

How to Outline and Flood Your Cookies with ONE Consistency of Royal Icing A time-saving technique that can be particularly useful when decorating cookies with royal icing is outlining and flooding with one consistency. This technique is known as the "one consistency method" and it simplifies the decorating process by eliminating the need to make

Let’s talk icing consistency! 🎨 When it comes to writing on cookies, I use two different consistencies: a stiff one for outlining and fine details, and a...

Mandy Edmunds on Instagram: "Do you want to have the most beautiful, smooth and shiny flooded sugar cookies? Use 15-second flood icing! Why should you use 15-second icing to flood your cookies? ✅Beautifully flat surface 🚫No drippy edges ❌No need to pipe an outer border 🕑Save time mixing just one consistency of icing 🩵 Perfectly flat surface for printing edible images Mix your icing and drizzle a little off your spatula. When the drizzle disappears within 15 seconds, it’s perfect for…

Best practices when writing with royal icing indlucing choosing font style, font size, icing consistency, piping tip/size, pipingpressure, piping technique.

The Basics of Royal Icing Consistency for Cookie Decorating You've made your icing, using this royal icing recipe and colored it, you're ready to decorate right? Almost, but not quite. The icing consistency needs to

Learn how to whip up this easy sugar cookie icing. Just 4 ingredients for the perfect consistency every time!

Achieving the right royal icing consistencies is the hardest yet the most important part of cookie decorating. It's also quite difficult to describe in words how royal icing consistency should be. That's probably the main reason I've put off writing about it for so long. Nailing the correct royal icing consistency isn't an exact science. It's more of a "feel" and becoming more familiar with how royal icing behaves under different thicknesses.