I think I have mentioned this many times on my blog but I hate baking. I feel like I say HATE a lot.. anyways I LOVE to decorate and I am still working on my royal icing skills to perfect the technique when doing my outline and flooding. At first I was using a fairly thick icing and dipping a spoon into warm water to push the icing to my edges. It actually worked fine, it’s just that I would have water lines if I didn’t mix it right. I see videos of people using a scriber tool to pop bubbles and push the icing so I have one of them on order but for now I am using a toothpick.

My hand is pretty steady but for some reason I just can’t get my outlines to be perfect. Again, something I am working on. I think it’s just knowing where the icing is going to land and not going too fast or too slow. Next time I am also not going to use a tip in my bag. The professionals just use a piping bag with a cut tip so I’ll try that next time too.

If you want to see the different consistencies for royal icing I found this video quite helpful and I have used some of their terminology in my directions. Here is the Quick and Easy Royal Icing recipe below