Does anybody know if you can add Glycerin to the Royal Icing you are using on the cookies? I don't really like the royal icing on cookies that gets hard.

I was reading in another post from early December about using royal icing on cakes and it was mentioned to add glycerin to it to keep it soft under the crust that is formed on top. The glycerin is suppose to keep it from getting rock hard.

Has anybody every tried this on cookies?? Do you think it would work?

Just bumping this to see if I get ANY response.

I have no idea of the answer to your question, but your title is vague enough that the person who knows might not have looked at it.

If you change the title to something like "Adding glycerin to royal icing?" you might catch the attention of someone who knows the answer but hasn't opened your post . ..

Good luck, I'm interested in this also!

hth!
Laura.

I think it might work--why don't you try a small batch and see if you get the results you're looking for?

Don't know about glycerin with royal icing but I know that I've added glycerin to my melted chocolate to prevent it from getting super hard again and it works. So does corn syrup and liquid glucose

When using it on a cake you add 1 teaspoon of glycerine to 1lb of icing sugar. It still dries hard but not 'rock hard' like royal normally does, I certainly don't see why it wouldn't work on cookies but it's not sometrhing I've actually tried