Need Help With Ri

Decorating By carleen2140 Updated 29 May 2007 , 5:45am by 4Gifts4Lisa

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carleen2140 Posted 27 May 2007 , 11:52am
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I made a batch of Royal Icing to practice with, this was my first batch. I would like to ask several questions about it. I followed instructions and when the icing was done, it seemed very thick. I used a parchment bag and several different tips to experiment, I felt it was to thick. Then I thinned it out and tried again, only this time it flowed out the tips without me squeezing the bag. Can you please tell me what is the right consistincy? Should I be using a bag and tip, or a bottle to do icing? I tried it on cookies.

Does it depend on what your are making? In otherwords, you would use a thick version to make roses and a thinner version for outling, and yet another thinning for filling in. When I used the thinned out versin for writing, all the lettering ran together.

Carleen

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torki Posted 27 May 2007 , 1:50pm
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yep you got it....your consistancy depends on what you are going to use it for. thumbs_up.gif

If I need to thin out my royal I use an eye dropper so I don't over thin it....made that mistake too many times!!!

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_angel_1974 Posted 29 May 2007 , 4:55am
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I do most of my royal icing in a stiff consisitency. If you need to add water, an eye dropper is the way to do it.

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Wiltonlady Posted 29 May 2007 , 5:09am
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It should be the consistency of marshmallow cream. That's the only way I know how to describe the consistency.

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beemarie Posted 29 May 2007 , 5:14am
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As was mentioned, use the eye dropper to add water. A little water goes a long way in RI, so do a bit at a time!

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4Gifts4Lisa Posted 29 May 2007 , 5:45am
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A spray bottle works great for thinning the icing, too!

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