i need to do a cake decoration that looks like the logo below (omg....shoot me...)

i am a walking disaster area each time i try to use royal icing. i do all my cookies in glace which i love, but every now and then i just have to use the RI...and each time, i find a new way to screw it up. the icing is too dry and flakes off the cookie. the icing won't dry. the icing turns into foam. and the worst, when i try and pipe letters or lines using a no. 1 tip, the icing curls back up on itself like its trying to climb back in the bag (i am so bad a i scare icing...).

is color flow less tempermental (...less likely that i could screw it up) than royal icing, or is it pretty much the same thing?

thanks!
diane

Pretty much same thing...(ColorFlow vs Thinned Royal Icing). On the upside, once your outlining is done the rest easy. If your RI is curling back on itself with a #1 tip, then thin it slightly or move up to #2 tip if the design will take it. HTH

Liz

1. LOL to the sacred icing, this happens to me too sometimes

2. Woah! to the complexity of the logo

3. Isn't color flow done with royal icing? This is what i thought anyway. I have done it on cookies and it worked out just fine. What recipe do you use for the RI?

oh yeah, i'll be dumbing this logo down for certain, lol.

i use the RI icing recipe from cookie craft with meringue powder.
and when my icing does that curling out of the tip manuever that i am beginning to take personally, i do thin it out. a 1/2-1 teaspoon of water at a time. i keep adding, it keeps curling....then when i do get something that doesn't curl, it won't dry. i don't know why i cannot find my happy place with RI consistency for piping.

i also moved up to tip two and it still curled.

i just lost 24 cookies because the thinned icing (so where it wouldn't curl when i piped and outline) held it's shape, but stayed tacky for 2 days.

i just cannot figure out where i am going so heinously wrong...

yeh i use Antonia74's royal icing with has meringue powder too. Um maybe it is taking so long to dry cose the icing is so thin? But then you go back to the problem that it won't pipe right.....that's a doozie lol Maybe we should try less pressure when we start piping the line and that would stop it curling up?

They sell a RI mix at cake supply stores. At least the one I go to has it. It's foolproof. Add water and mix. I thought colorflow was thinned down RI. Good luck on that design. Post a pic when you're done!

I don't know what the details of your order are, but I was wondering what the possibilities were for you to do a Frozen BC transfer.

or paint with diltued paste colours on fondant if you are doing fondant cake...

ALSO...me again sorry lol You could ask TracyLH if she knows how to stop it curling at the top of the tip (and then tell me lol) because she has done so many great cookies doing the color flow RI and might have some tips on how to stop it if she has had that happen to her before