How To Flavor Royal Icing

Decorating By sectheatre Updated 15 Apr 2006 , 4:38am by twinsline7

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sectheatre Posted 11 Apr 2006 , 2:17pm
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Hello,
I am new to royal icing and I have a question. What should be used to flavor it? I thought I read you shouldn't use anything with oil in it, but even almond extract has oil of almond in it-so I wasn't sure if it would work to use it.

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caixa Posted 13 Apr 2006 , 5:30pm
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MY teacher at the Wilton classes told me is not really suppost to taste good sinse no one really eats it, except maybe the little ones. Caixa

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bekahd Posted 14 Apr 2006 , 3:32am
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I got the same information from W instructors (3 of em!) and yet there seem to be several folks around here who use lemon juice as either all or part of the liquid. Some also or instead use vanilla (alcohol, not glycerin based) Might be better to use clear vanilla both for color and to avoid potental natural oil contamination. (although alcohol extraction should theoretically only capture alcohol-soluble compounds, still...)

Might try using some flavoring myself, since my kids don't really seem to care how hard it gets, they'll eat ANYTHING that's basically sweet. (and they are what they eat) icon_wink.gif Still, I'd like them to at least grow up thinking that food is supposed to have flavor, not just sugar... (yeah, I'm really reinforcing THAT icon_twisted.gif)

Ahh, sorry! Hazard of being a biochemistry major. Very longwinded answer to a short, simple question.
Anyway, hth
Bekah

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chocomama Posted 15 Apr 2006 , 4:25am
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I've been wondering about this very same thing. I had no idea that you weren't supposed to eat the flowers! Does everyone know this or am I just stupid?! icon_confused.gif

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twinsline7 Posted 15 Apr 2006 , 4:38am
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it gets eaten on cookies....I dont think it tastes bad on cookies....never tried to eat a royal rose those icon_biggrin.gif

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