How to Pipe and Flood Cookies with ONE Royal Icing Consistency | Puffy Royal Icing on Cookies

hi it's ashley from sweet dreams bake shop and welcome back to my channel where i make a lot of cake and cookie decorating tutorials as well as give a lot of baking business tips now i know i've made several videos that are very similar to this and i believe i have a short all about royal icing flooding as well but i wanted to make a more clear video that's very very dedicated to looking specifically at the way that the texture of icing should be i say the words pipe and flood a lot in my videos so i really wanted to make a more dedicated video that could be referenced whenever i mention this type of pipe and flood consistency in my intermediate to more advanced decorating videos now let's first start off with my royal icing recipe it's one cup of icing sugar and one tablespoon of meringue powder and as much water as needed so as you saw there in the beginning i mixed up the icing sugar and the meringue powder first and then i went ahead and added some water i'm showing you here what too loose of consistency looks like so it is staying on that spatula it's falling off rather quickly off those beads and what that is telling me is that yes i probably will be able to flood a cookie with it but i might end up with a little bit of translucent icing and i'm probably going to get icing that falls off of the edge so what i added in there was a little bit more thickened royal icing now if you don't have royal icing that's already prepared you're going to want to add a little bit more icing sugar and a little bit more meringue powder in order to avoid that of course you want to make sure that maybe you're adding your water a little bit at a time a little bit slower so that you're getting the right consistency i can see now that the royal icing is hanging on a lot more to the beater which is great but it's still folding into itself rather quickly so i'm going to go ahead and add in a little bit more thickened royal icing in there just to make sure that it's just that extra little bit thicker the key here as well is to fully activate the ingredients of the meringue powder meaning if you just mix this by hand you probably won't get that nice puffy fluffy icing you really need to make sure that you're incorporating it very very well and use some sort of stand mixer or hand mixer in order to get that nice and fluffy if you don't it's going to fall flat and you might end up again with a translucent looking royal icing i highly recommend that you use tipless piping bags i find it a lot easier and the flow of this just works so much nicer but it's totally up to you what i'm showing you here is when the royal icing is just that slight bit too thick so nothing is flowing over the edges which is great but this doesn't actually go completely flat my personal preference is when i don't have to shake the cookie or pop any bubbles whatsoever and it just falls into itself one of the biggest mistakes i used to always make when i first started cookie decorating was just going with the wrong texture empty out your bag this is very easy to do when you're using tipless piping bags and try again so what i did here in this demonstration is i loosened up this royal icing quite a bit so that it would not have any type of lump or bump on it again you can see though it's not flowing over the edge it's really really important to outline your cookie first and then go ahead and fill it in right away i've had some questions on my videos whether or not i let that icing set and then fill it in or do i fill it in right away and the answer is fill it in right away or else you're going to get this definitive looking line on the outside again this is just preference but my whole cookie career i've always been looking for that puffy royal icing look that doesn't have those lines some people do like to use a different type of piping icing on the outside which is a lot thicker and then that way they don't really have to care about what the texture is in the center but it does create a completely different look once again going back in and i want to show you on this singular cookie just how different two royal icing textures can look and the difference is honestly maybe about one to two tablespoons of water but i'm filling this in with that royal icing that's just slightly thick it's a little thick it will go smooth-ish but there will be some lumps and bumps on now this is a little bit of not really wet on wet technique but it is using the same consistency of icing right next to each other because again i don't want a definitive line in that center there so i'm filling this in with a bit looser of a texture and you can see it's just that slight bit flatter i do have a little bit of bumps on that white side and you can see i get a little bit more peeking on that white side as well so it really does make a difference but again it depends what are you doing with your cookie if you need it to be completely completely flat i would take the time to go back and make sure you add in a little bit more water or do whatever it is that you need to do in order to make those royal icing sugar cookies nice and flat the biggest takeaway from this video though is for sure using that royal icing recipe that i provided you with also making sure to add the water little by little and whip it for a sufficient amount of time if it doesn't look nice and white and fluffy you didn't whip it for long enough i tend to whip my royal icing for about 10 minutes or so before it's ready to go now don't over whip or else it will kind of get this weird texture on top so be careful with that as well now let's get into the subscriber submission of the video these really really stuck out to me i absolutely love when donuts are placed on other types of desserts definitely go and check them out on instagram and be sure to drop them a like and a comment and if you want to be the next subscriber submission of the video then please follow me at sdbakeshop on instagram where 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Length: 5min 51sec (351 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 03 2022