So... I keep seeing a lot of people on the forum mention glace... particularly Tobas glace.

What is glace? I use RI on my cookies... is glace similar? Is it thinner? Do you use it with RI, or instead of RI?

I looked in the recipes section to see if I could find a recipe, but I couldn't. Where can I find a recipe?

Enlighten me... please!

Glace' is an icing that dries firm, but not hard like royal icing. And it's a bit more opaque than royal icing. I ice my cookies in glace' and use royal outlines and details.
It's listed as Toba Garrett's Glace Icing in the CC recipe section.

thank you for the reply! So, if it dried firm, but not hard... is it hard to package or ship?

you can touch it without denting it, but if you pressed with some serious intent, you would damage the icing. stacking is doable with glace, but if you can avoid it, i would. i ship mine, but it requires more careful packaging than RI. probably not the best choice for big volume shipping.

another nice thing about glace is that you can get a shinier finish than RI.

I've used it on almost all the cookies in my photos. The base is always glace. The details are in royal.

I use Toba's glace on all my cookies and LOVE it. I have never shipped my cookies but have packaged them as gifts (indivually wrapped - stacked in baskets) and they hold up very well. I love the glace b/c you can stack it BUT you don't break a tooth when biting in! And it tastes great!

How do you store glace if you have extra?

Here's the CC link. This is the flood consistency of her icing. You'll need to thicken it for outlining. Store leftover icing in the fridge -- up to 2 weeks with milk and 3 weeks without.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2119-Toba-Garretts-Glace-Icing.html

Do the finished cookies need refrigerated since the glace has milk in it? I'm new to cookies. Thanks for all the great tips!

I don't do many cookies, so I don't know if there's a tutorial on here or not. But this one from Our Best Bites gives some helpful pointers:

http://www.ourbestbites.com/2008/12/tutorial-glace-icing-and-cookie.html

Here's a great thread on Glace'.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict- 634381.html

Hope this helps !

Nuts!
It didn't work.
Can someone help me , direct to the thread?

Buttacream, take the space out of the link -- that broke the link.

Thanks everyone for all the info. Now I can't wait to try cookies!!!

Tried several times to direct to thread ,but am unable.Search under Gemini's "before and after" thread it is very helpful.

I love using glace. For the longest time I used buttercream because I loved the taste, but it wasn't very practical. I tried RI, but didn't like the taste and the texture of it. I found out about glace from CC, and now it's the only thing I use on my cookies. I use a thin version to flood, and thicken it to a peanut butter consistency(as described by someone else here on CC...sorry don't remember who) for details. It works great. I even froze 150 decorated cookies for my cousins wedding, and they came out perfectly. Hope that helps.

Brooke