Recipe Royal Icing For Flooding Cookies

Adjust the consistency with water.

Recipe royal icing for flooding cookies. Pipe ovals of pink icing while the base layer is still wet. Remove the bowl from the stand and sift the powdered sugar into the bowl this is important if you want smooth icing. Also known as flow in icing or flood icing this recipe dries icing to a smooth finish.

To thin for pouring add 1 teaspoon water per cup of royal icing. Thin consistency for flooding. Now we re going to concentrate on thinning that icing to the right consistency for flooding your cookies.

Continue this until the icing it thin and liquid. Place the bowl back on the stand mixer and beat on low until well combined. Add 1 2 teaspoon water at a time until you reach proper consistency.

If you want to make runny icing for flooding cookies or making run outs then take some royal icing stiff made into a bowl and start mixing it with water a few drops at the time. Mix until the icing is smooth and evenly colored 1 to 2 minutes. The flood icing will sort of self level.

Add water in 1 teaspoon increments stirring between each until desired consistency is reached. Click here for part one of the tutorial the recipe itself and making royal icing for piping edges. Once you ve made royal icing of a firm consistency you ve done all the hard work.

Unlike softer cookie icings thinned royal icing is durable once it sets making it ideal for flooding and decorating sugar cookies. One thats pretty thin for flooding and one thats a little stiffer for outlining. The icing can be used as is or thinned out with water to achieve a pourable consistency for flooding cookies.