I am using antonia's icing, I mixed it up the night before, per her instructions. Today before I used it, I popped all the air bubbles that rose to the surface and restirred the icing. I then thinned it out, put it in squeeze bottle and proceeded to flood my cookies. I still got tiny air bubbles though, I would pop them with a toothpick when they would appear, but that left tiny holes in my icing. Is there a way to prevent the air bubbles all together?
Second question how do you ice a cookie that has several colors? For instance I am doing a cat face right now. The cat is white, but the whiskers are black, the eyes are blue and the inside of the ears and nose are pink. Should I just flood the entire cookie in white and then go back over to add the details in the appropriate color, or should I do each part individually? If I do the latter, which part should I do first? For instance should I do the pink parts, let that dry, go back and do the blue parts, etc., etc., saving the white part for last. Or should I do the white part first and leave the parts that need to be colored empty then once the white has dried, go back and do the colored parts? Am I making any sense?
Fraggle I am not the one to ask (see my sig) but make sure you don't overwhip your icing.
You are making sense with the coloring. I don't do many like that, there are some ladies here that do and I'm sure you'll get better responses maybe in the morning. I would say let the colors dry so you don't worry about any bleeding.
I've never tried Antonia's icing - though a lot of people sware by it here so it's on my list of things to try. So I can't help with the bubble issue if you've gently stirred it after letting bubbles rise to the top.
As for the multi-colour cookies. Depending on how you want them to look would be how you have to ice them.
For the cat face - if you want everything level then you would have to outline each individual colour and do them all seperately. For example, do all the white outlining, then the white flooding, then the pink outlining, and pink flooding, etc., etc.,
If you want the pink of the ears and whiskers 'raised', flood the entire cookie white and once is has dried you can do all the others colours for more of a 2-D effect.
Hope this helps!
I can't help you with the air bubbles - I get them sometimes too.
About the order for decorating the cookie, as mentioned above, it depends on the look you want.
I generally flood the entire cookie, then later add the details so they're raised from the surface.
Several times, though, I've flooded the cookie and added the details right away so it all settled to the same level before drying. Those looked neat, but it was hard to get the detail very crisp, because as the detail icing "sank" into the background, the lines sometimes became distorted. That technique worked best for me with designs and patterns rather than facial features and lettering, etc. The heart cookies in my photos were done this way.
I have tried to pipe the details first (like cat whiskers) then flood around them, but found that it was difficult to get everything even enough for it to look good, although I'm sure it can be done.
Lastly, I did some cat face cookies earlier this year for my SIL's wedding shower, but I did the details with the Wilton Food Writer markers. The pics are in my photos, if you want to take a look . . .
Good luck with your cookies!
Laura.
To get rid of small bubbles, I use a straight pin. It prevents leaving craters in your cookie
And in regards to the order of decorating....I usually flood a solid color and add detail. Sometimes when you have a cookie with lots of detail layering the colors can sometimes look awkward due to the outlines. I really think personal preference and what your decorating will be the deciding factor....good luck
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