i was wondering if anyone could tell me if this icing gets hard like regular royal icing? i want to use and icing that people can eat with out breaking teeth on it ...plus my kids wont even eat the flowers that i have done in royal icing before and thats bad cause they eat pretty much anything. lol
Thanks yall!!
What is Antonia74 icing? Sorry newbie here.....
Here is a link to her recipe:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1983-Royal-Icing-for-Decorated-Cookies.html
Does anyone know if you add flavor to it if you need to cut down the liquid or not? Or maybe it doesn't need flavor?
I don't know why you guys don't want to PM me directly to ask 
, but I am always available to answer any questions you have about my recipe! I hope it's okay to butt in here to help out? 
My recipe is a royal icing, but the technique is to thin it with water to make it easy to use and to eat. It is not a rock-hard, break your teeth icing. It takes to the cookie and is hard to the touch on top, so you can pack or stack the cookies when dry BUT it stays soft underneath because of the butter content in the cookies you are decorating.
Does anyone know if you add flavor to it if you need to cut down the liquid or not? Or maybe it doesn't need flavor?
The meringue powder I purchase from a wholesaler has vanilla flavouring already built into it, so i don't add it to my recipe. You can certainly add flavouring though. I suggest a non-oil-based extract like vanilla, but I don't recommend an oil-based extract. Oil mixed with royal icing is warned to "break down" the icing and to not allow it to dry as quickly or fully at all.
antonia74, of coarse you can butt in!!! The reason I didn't pm you was because I thought you might be busy seeing all the beautiful work you do!! But it's nice to know you don't mind if we pm you because I probably will! Thank you!
I just want to tell you all who haven't used antonia's icing, it's extremely good. I did cookies for the first time back in may for a baby shower and the mother ( which is my cousin), told me for x-mas all she wanted was those cookies with that frosting. It is an excellent recipe.
Thanks yall. Im going to make some icing tomorrow to decorate the cookies that i made tonight.
and Antonia...im sorry that i didnt Pm you...until i read this i didnt even know that you could do that. :S
I used Antonia's icing on cookies last week (the texas bandana ones in my photos). I used red mmf on the bottom and piped with Antonia's. It was so easy to use and held up perfectly! I want to try making letters/words (ie Happy Birthday) ahead of time, let harden and transfer to the cake. I'm wondering if this recipe is the one to use for this, too.
Hi,
I just wanted to add that I have been adding a little lemon extract to the icing and it is YUMMY!!
JoAnn
I've also added Lemon, Orange, and Vanilla to it before. They all taste great. But Creme Bouquet is my new fave! Where do you get creme bouquet? I've never seen it anywhere.
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