I'm in the process of trying different cookie and icing recipes, based on all the wonderful guidance here on CC.

I'm having trouble with icing...I find I don't care for the taste of royal icing (maybe the meringue powder?) and I just tried Toba's Glace and it has a raw powdered sugar flavor that isn't what I'm looking for either.

Anyone use a different icing all together? I don't mind sweet, but would just like a mellow sweet. Am I looking for something that doesn't exist??!!

Many use fondant.
Or you might want to try my Buttercream for air-drying flowers. It's in the recipe section.

I recently had a sugar cookie from a local bakery, and the icing they used almost had a chocolate-y flavor. I've never tasted fondant...could that be what they used?

Anyone ever added melted white chocolate to their royal icing or TG? I just made TG and added melted unsweetened chocolate to make it brown (I'm making fall leaf cookies for Thanksgiving), and it actually tastes pretty good!

I don't mind the taste of royal icing

I live in Aus and i don't know if you would have anything like this over there but we have a prouct called 'Pavalova magic' and is used to make Pavlova's, and is like a powdered egg white and I use that instead of meringue powder but i don't reckon it has the 'taste' that ppl complain about with meringue powder.

Also maybe try adding a little lemon juice? someones i do that to

You should really try adding extracts to either of the icings. They will taste very good then.

Thanks for all the ideas. I've tried flavoring with (premium) vanilla and "all-natural" orange and lemon extracts. I'll keep playing around with it, because I'm hoping to find something that tastes more like granulated sugar than powdered sugar...but I have to say that I really liked the flavor when I added melted unsweetened chocolate. That's ok as long as I want all my cookies to be some shade of brown! LOL!! Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Great minds think alike, Gemini! A few posts up, I asked if anyone had ever used white chocolate in their icing. I'll have to try it and see how it tastes...