Wet on Wet techniques for Royal Icing
1 Recipe Almond Sugar Cookies
1 Recipe Royal Icing,
Various Round cutters
Blue Gel Food Coloring
Yellow Gel Food Coloring
Size 1 round tip
2 Size 5 round tips
Tooth picks
- Bake cookies and let cool
- Make Royal Icing (RI), divided into 3 parts
- Use food coloring to tint 2 parts of the Royal Icing (RI) (blue/yellow)
- Fill bag with white outline consistency RI, fit with size 1 round tip
- Outline all your cookies and let set at least 15 minutes to allow the RI to firm up
outline cookies with RI
- Fill RI by spread it with a shallow spoon
RI fill consistency
spread RI with shallow spoon
- Spread RI with a shallow spoon, pushing the icing from the center out towards the edges
- Immediately pipe alternating colored RI onto the wet fill
pipe colored RI onto wet fill
- Immediately drag a tooth pick across the cookie
drag a tooth pick through RI
drag a tooth pick in alternating directions to create desire affect
Drag the tooth pick in the opposite direction to create desired affect
pipe colored RI onto white fill
drag a tooth pick through RI
repeat to reach desired affect
okay…this was a good blog. very simple, but one picture made my entire royal icing disaster make so much sense now. amen.
Pictures make this type of thing so much easier. I’ve read many posts and things on RI and have had my share of failed attempts its hard to explain somethings like consistency in words.