Decorated Cookies Royal Icing

Add water in 1 teaspoon increments stirring between each until desired consistency is reached.

Decorated cookies royal icing. I tend to make a batch for each color i am going to need just to make my life easier. This technique is known as a dam. Prep a thin royal icing place it in a shallow bowl then dip the top of your cutout cookies into the icing done.

When decorating cookies with royal icing use either a squeeze bottle our test kitchen editors preference or a pastry bag fitted with a fine tip. Mix until the icing is smooth and evenly colored 1 to 2 minutes. This method serves as a great base for all kinds of embellishments.

I use my whisk attachment on my mixer. If you ve never worked with royal icing before check out our recipe for step by step instructions on how to make it as well as basic piping and flooding techniques. And dipping cookies is just as easy as it sounds.

You ll notice in the video below that my icing is fairly thick to begin with. Keep mixing until the icing looses it s sheen. Adjust the consistency with water.

Royal icing is a decorative hard white icing made with egg whites powdered sugar and some flavoring and coloring used to decorate cookies. The icing can be used as is or thinned out with water to achieve a pourable consistency for flooding cookies. Pipe a border around your cookie shape with the icing.