Ready to take your cookies to the next level with royal icing?
Go beyond basic piping and flooding, and explore these advanced techniques for making bakery-worthy decorated cookies.
Try flocking, layering, adding candies, and more!
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Once you start decorating cookies with royal icing, it gets super addictive!
And Im not just talking eating all those pretty cookies.
What Is Royal Icing?
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Pick a smaller round tip (#1 or #2) if you want to do detailed work.
Or work with a basic #3 tip if you are looking to do more organic shapes.
Consider making patterns as well as outlines and drawings using piping.
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Flooding
Flooding means covering larger areas of a cookie with icing.
Start by piping an outline with icing, then flood the area with a thinner icing.
The outline serves as a barrier to hold in the flooded area.
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you’re able to also draw a picture and use flooding to fill in the spaces.
Bleeding
Bleeding is when you add an additional colored icing on top of a still-wet flooded area.
Instead of having a crisp sharp line, your colors will bleed into each other and look more organic.
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it’s possible for you to use bleeding to create some beautiful effects.
The icing acts like glue and the sugar sticks to it.
This results in a sparkling line or pattern.
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Just place the cookie on a shallow baking pan or plate with a rim.
Test it first by lifting up the cookie and tilting it.
If you see the icing start to move, set it back down quickly and let it dry longer.
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Just add a dot of icing to the cookie, and then place the candy.
You might want to use tweezers if the dragee or candy is very small or especially delicate.
Or just sprinkle them over a flooded area while its still wet.
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Just allow the royal icing to completely dry between layers.
Layer them between sheets of parchment or wax paper.
Store them at room temperature on your counter or kitchen table for up to five days.
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