Icing consistencies

This easy royal icing with meringue powder includes three different consistencies, decorating tips, FAQs, & is the BEST icing recipe for sugar cookies!

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…

Learn how to make the perfect buttercream consistency for cake decorating, from frosting a cake to making buttercream flowers and more!

Now that you've made a big ole batch of royal icing using my delicious fool-proof royal icing recipe, you are probably looking at it wondering what next? So I created this step by step

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

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.

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 be adjusted for different decorating techniques. It's key to achieving the results you want with your cookies, and was definitely

The Cookie Countess on Instagram: "⭐️ To move from a thicker icing to a thinner one, you simply add water a little bit at a time and mix; use a spray bottle or dropper so that you can carefully control how much water you are adding—you can always add more, but you can’t take it out once it’s in there, so it’s best to add water with a light hand and then assess your consistency. If you do accidentally add too much, it’s not the end of the world: simply add more powdered sugar to regain some…

Hani Bacova on Instagram: “I started decorating cookies in 2008. What I have learned over the years is that consistency of royal icing can make your decorating…”