Help With Decorating Sugar Cookies With Ri??
Baking By mrskennyprice Updated 10 Dec 2006 , 11:20am by BarbaraK
I want to try to do some 'professional' looking sugar cookies for Christmas, but I'm not sure of the best way to 'cover' the surface with the icing? For example, if I'm doing a Christmas tree or snowman, I want to have the whole surface one color and then add decorations on top of that once it's dry...what's the best way to do this? should i thin the RI as if I'm doing a run in? should i hold the edges of the cookie and 'dip' it into the icing? what do you all recommend? TIA 
I would say "flooding" or a run in is the best way. First outline your cookie with thicker royal icing the same color that you want to make the whole cookie. Next, do the run in or "flooding" with the same color but flooding consistency inside..... (Hope that helps )
Flooding is great, but I paint my cookies. Also, if your going to layer colors, don't put deep colors like red or black on real dry royal or it could bleed. I apply my next color right after the first layer of royal has just dried. The bear is a good example. I put black trin on white.
Flooding is great, but I paint my cookies. Also, if your going to layer colors, don't put deep colors like red or black on real dry royal or it could bleed. I apply my next color right after the first layer of royal has just dried. The bear is a good example. I put black trin on white.
What do you mean by "paint" your cookie? Like with a brush? Your cookies are beautiful and so are your cakes!
Yep, painting with a little paintbursh. I have about 4 different sizes that I use. I paint first, then outline. Just a little different look than flooding. The consistency of the royal is about the same as flooding. As a matter of fact, I just finished painting a whole bunch of cookies tonight
Hi,
I do cookies but don't use royal icing to flood it. I think it gets way too hard to bite into so I use Toba Garrett's recipe which is a glace icing (has karo syrup in it). The icing floods beautifully, and it dries with a bit of a shine. AND the best part is that even after it dries, it is soft enough to bite into. I do the details with royal.
maltesemom - any chance you'd be williing to share Toba's recipe??? I love the look of the slight shine on icing, and I agree about royal being hard to bite into. Is the recipe on this site somewhere or available on the internet??
I just bought Toba's book and I will give you the recipe if you pm me.
Could I please get that recipe too or someone could pm it to me. Thank You! 
Here is the link to Toba Garrett's Glace icing
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2119-1-Toba-Garretts-Glace-Icing.html
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