the consistency of marshmallow creme all of a sudden??? I need it to be like oil paints so I can paint my cookies. Does anyone out there have a good hard quick drying icing for cookies that acts like a paint? Like oil paints or acrylic? Am I just insane??? 
I'm no expert on RI at all, but I think you could thin it out with water until you get it super thin so you can paint with it. I know I've thinned mine out until it got almost like water before, accidentally of course, but it still dried hard. Good luck!
I added water and all it seemed to do was get frothy. I wonder If I messed up the recipe somehow. Does anyone out there have a favorite RI recipe that works AND tastes good?
If you haven't tried it yet, Antonia74's royal icing is definitely worthy of an A+!
http://www.cakecentral.com/article54-How-To-Bake--Decorate-Cookies.html
Look under "making icing & decorating cookies". I add a tsp of flavoring as well. HTH! 
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