Flooding Cookies. . Help Please!
Baking By forheavenscake Updated 24 Dec 2009 , 3:17am by globalgatherings
Gonna start working on my cookies in about an hour and I have a question.
When I put the RI on, do I need to make a 'border' with thicker icing first and then flood inside of that? Or can I just slowly flood the top of the cookie making sure it doesn't poor over the sides? I'm hoping the last option will work, so I don't have to worry about making two different consistencies, but I also want to make sure it's done right!
Please help asap! Would love techniques and hints etc. . .
If you only need the cookies to be one color, I'd dip them, smooth off the excess, clean up the edge. Otherwise, you'll want to do a 'dam' and let it dry for a few minutes before flooding. The first way is so much faster!
There will be lots of different opinions, which is a good thing, because it gives you lots of options on what may work for you.
I use one consistency but only because I just don't want to make two different batches of icing, plus I like it to blend nice and smooth (dont' like to see the outline). I like to outline the whole cookie (or section), then fill it in. It just seems easier to me.
I also tend to (but not always) ice the backside of the cookie. The backside is perfectly flat and that helps avoid having a rounded top cookie that the icing will roll off of. A perfectly flat surface seems to work better for me for keeping the icing on, with no "drips" down the sides.
When I was a kid, the only bakery in town had Smiley Face cookies and they iced the backside of them. That's where I got the idea.
I also tend to (but not always) ice the backside of the cookie. The backside is perfectly flat and that helps avoid having a rounded top cookie that the icing will roll off of. A perfectly flat surface seems to work better for me for keeping the icing on, with no "drips" down the sides.
When I was a kid, the only bakery in town had Smiley Face cookies and they iced the backside of them. That's where I got the idea.
Oh, that's brilliant!
When I first started, I tried to save time too like you OP and not outline. Yea, that didn't work for me, the icing just ran off. Now, I always outline first. As stated above, you only need to let the outline dry for a few minutes and then go back and flood. I usually outline 10 or 20 cookies and by the time I'm done with the last one the first ones are ready to flood.
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