Royal Icing Consistency Guide | 4 types of icing | daintycookieco

hi i'm wendy from dainty cookie co and today i'll be showing you four different types of icing consistency here i'm starting off with stiff consistency icing straight out the mixer that's been colored with americolor and gel paste fuchsia okay so make sure you thoroughly mix your icing you want to get all the way to the bottom of the bowl to mix your color thoroughly scrape off your spatula as well you can test out your icing by lifting up a spatula and seeing that the peaks stay in shape here you can see that the icing is holding its peaks it's holding its shape very well this is the consistency you need for when you are wanting to do any floral work for example like when you want to pipe some roses i'll be using a thick disposable piping bag and i'll be fitting it in with a coupler now a coupler is mostly used for when you want to interchange tips bring the coupler straight to the bottom of the bag go ahead and grab a pair of scissors and score the bottom end of the coupler snip off the excess just enough so that the coupler doesn't go all the way through here you can see just the end of the coupler is coming out of the piping bag i'll be using a flower tip screw the tip in you can use a tall glass cup when filling your piping bag the way to do that is you would put the piping bag inside the cup and fold the excess over the rim of the cup i'll be using my hands [Music] this is normally how i fill my piping bag with my fingers i went ahead and scraped off the spatula push the icing towards the bottom of the bag here you can go ahead and tie with the back time you can use a clip or you can knot the end just like i'm doing here this helps prevent the icing from pouring out from the back end of the piping bag i have a template here where i'll show you how i pipe a rose using stiff consistency you can see that the rose has kept its shape you can see the ridges of the design now i'm changing tips to show you how simple it is when you're using a coupler using the same bag and you're able to change into any tip you'd like i'll show you a different type of rose here [Music] i'm cleaning up the edges and the ends with a scribe now here i was able to achieve two different types of roses using the same icing bag and the same color the next icing i'll be showing you is outline consistency icing i have a spray bottle with water i'll start off with a little bit of water at a time and mix it in thoroughly you can also use a dropper or you can use measuring spoons and just add a quarter teaspoon of water at a time outline consistency is used for outlining the shape of a cookie it holds your flooding inside you're also able to use it for lettering and detail work here you see it's more of a softer peak [Music] it's still not as soft as i'd like it to be so i'm adding more water do here i'm using a thinner material piping bag you can find them on amazon i'm also not using a tip [Music] go ahead and fold the bag over your hand again push the icing towards the bottom and tie a knot at the end now make sure your seam is facing up and cut off a small opening at the end of the bag [Music] here i have a fake cookie i'll go ahead and outline the shape just to give you an idea of how it would be if it were outlining a real cookie now let's move on to medium consistency icing we'll add more water [Music] now medium consistency is used for outlining and flooding using the same consistency icing it's used for when you want more dimension and give you a more puffy look to your icing [Music] here you see a slow plop medium consistency is thick enough that it can hold somewhat of its shape but it is thin enough that you can also smooth it out using a scribe you want it ribboning slowly off your spatula do i'm bringing my template over so i can show you how i outline the circle and fill in using the same icing now with my scribe i'm smoothing out the surface here you see that it blended in perfectly with the help of a now we'll move on to flood consistency icing you don't want it to be too thin but you want it thin enough that it drizzles off the spatula just as you see here it takes a couple of seconds for it to smooth over on its own you use flood consistency to flood your cookie within the outline consistency flood consistency is also prone to air bubbles since you're adding water and you're mixing you're whipping air into the icing causing air bubbles to rise you can leave your bowl for a couple of minutes and let the bubbles rise on their own then with a spatula or a spoon gently smooth over the top of the icing and pop the air bubbles bye an extra tip is that if you accidentally add too much water to your icing you can thicken it back up by adding sifted powdered sugar into your icing and mixing it until you reached the desired consistency i'm bringing my template over again and will show you how i outline and fill the circle but you will also notice how the outline is not holding its shape as its flood consistency it kind of melts away you see how fast the icing settles without even kneading the scribe it's not maintaining its perfect circle shape is coming out the line a little bit whereas here i'm using the outline consistency to outline the circle shape and then i'll go in with my flood consistency in the center and you can see that the outline holds the flood consistency icing inside it's more of a clean circle it's maintaining its shape because that outline consistency is holding the flood in if you see any air bubbles just go ahead and pop them with their scribe now i'll go ahead and show you side by side each consistency so you can see the difference there you see stiff consistency the peak is holding its shape next is outline consistency which is a little smoother the peak is not as stiff it has a slight curve to it here you see medium consistency [Music] it barely has a tip on the top and now flooding which settled right away and has no peak there you can see a side-by-side view and you can compare how each of the icings differ [Music] now here's another angle view i hope you found this video informative and it helps you in your cookie decorating journey thank you for watching and see you in the next video

Channel: Dainty Cookie Co.

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Length: 24min 4sec (1444 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 17 2022