Ok here’s the drill. I baked 3 different rolled cookie recipes last night. I’ve always iced them using buttercream. Being the wild adventurous type, I decided today to ice them playing with Tobia’s Glaze and Antonia’s RI. Sounds good right?
Off to a horrible start. Decided to start with the RI. Big mistake!! Does anybody have any idea what a horrible mess you create when you accidentally grab, measure & use gum paste powder? You DON’T WANT TO KNOW!!!
It didn’t look right to me on any step of the procedure. I spent a LOT of time checking on this site to see if anybody else had had problems with the icing. Nothing but the highest praise. Ok. Maybe it will look different once it’s thinned properly. Oh no. It’s still a mess. Check the boards again. Everybody loves it. So easy to fix, etc. Decide to start again. Oops that isn’t what that container is supposed to say. Hmmmm I think I know why it doesn’t look right. lol
The best part is that now I can’t do anything until I go to the store. I don’t have 5 tablespoons of Meringue powder in the can. I used the last of my hand dish detergent to clean my equipment squeaky clean because we all know what grease does to RI.
Now that you’ve, hopefully, picked yourself up off the floor where you fell laughing so hard, this icing better taste better than regular RI or I’m REALLY going to be mad.
Here I am again, much later in the day. Made the trip to the store & now have enough Meringue Powder to try mixing up the Royal Icing. Oh my, it works so much better without gum paste powder in it. LOL Actually it does mix up very nicely. So now I start deciding what to ice first. Things that are white are a no brainer as all I have to do is thin the icing down just a bit & fill a decorating bag.
Gingerbread stars iced with Royal Icing.
The Royal Icing outlines the cookies very nicely. Thin it down a bit more to do my fill in & finish the cookies. In no time, the stars & snowmen are done. I’m very pleased with how this icing handles. Pipes easily & coloring it is no problem. Doesn’t taste all that good, but it is Royal Icing. Royal Icing is better known for decorative value than taste.
The recipe makes a huge batch of icing so I’m not at all sure I’m going to be able to try out the glaze recipe after all. This batch may be large enough to ice all 3 batches of cookies! That impresses me. I’m tired & decide to go to bed after icing about half of the cookies.
Tags: blog, food, icing, meringue powder, royal icing
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