Mixing colors and consistencies. What are your techniques?
Hey all, I was curious as to what you all do when prepping to ice some cookies.
Obviously, you have your thick royal icing made and ready to water down and color. But do you prefer to mix each color and consistency one by one (mix a red flood, then a blue flood, then a thicker blue, etc etc), or do you mix up a big batch of flood icing or thicker icing, and then separate it out for the colors you're going to use?
Right now Im mixing them one by one, but man does it take a while. On the other hand, I try not to go too crazy with too many colors.
Posted Dec 7, 2014, 8:48 AM UTC
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I mix a large batch of royal icing glaze (basically the same as royal icing but with corn syrup or honey added in). I start with it at a piping/stencil consistency, scoop out about a cup worth of that and zip loc bag it. Then I thin the whole batch down to about a 20 second icing consistency. I put the whole thing in a gallon zip loc and suck all the air out so it won't crust. Once I have done that, I snip a tiny corner of the bag off so I can squeeze out what I want to color one at a time. I prefer to outline and immediately flood with the same consistency and color, so 20 second icing works well here. In between each color I fold the corner of the bag closed and put a chip clip over it.
That way everything is the consistency I need without having to thin anything down, and I have piping consistency separate and ready to go. I don't have to have 2 bags of the same color yet with different consistencies to decorate anything. It works well for me!!
Awesome, sounds like a neat idea.