This is my first attempt at royal icing cookies. Please don't laugh at my Grinch, I realize I need a much finer tip to do the details. How do you get your icing to be shiny and vibrant? Also how to give it more dimension. Like I wanted the white part to be more fluffy. Should I have done a 2nd coat?

Hi, I wanted to make some decorative Christmas cookies but I do not like the taste or consistency of the hard flooding icing. Is there such a thing of a very thick soft flooding icing? If there is do you have a recipe I can try? Thank you very much!

I've only used royal icing once and it went well but I want to learn more. I want to know the fundamentals and then beyond. There are so many videos out there I don't know which one to go with. One that has videos (or a book) for beginners and ones that progress from there.

Very, very new to cookie decorating. Like, a dozen cookies in new.

Trying to get the embroidered look on mittens like I see here : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDSMmnJxmLT/?igsh=MWphcGd3MDRqczBrbw==

But instead I'm ending up with flat discs shape (like pellets?) rather than round like in the video. I used stiff consistency icing.

I noticed in the video she's just squeezing out the icing in drops but I have to push the tip of the icing bag against the surface so that it let goes of the drop but I think that's also what's contributing to the flat disc / pellet look.

Should I be using a looser consistency?

I only make cookies once a year during Christmas for fun and I use the Sally’s baking addiction sugar cookie and royal icing recipe but always have this issue. After baking, the surface of the cookie is kind of flaky and crumbly so then when I do flooding you can see what’s flaked off.

Does anyone have any advice for how to fix this? I’m not sure if it’s an issue with the recipe/my ingredients or how I’m making the dough.

Also, does anyone have tips for how to make white royal icing more white? Mine always dries to be a creamish color.

Good morning and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

I'm a newbie. I think I have outline and flood consistency. My question is.. as I wait for the icing to dry overnight, the cookie also gets hard and isn't soft like when they are unfrosted in a plastic bag. Is this normal? Is it because of the frosting or because the cookie gets stale? TIA!

My sibling refused to put this one in the cookie box because it looked like a crime scene outline. I added some flair.

First I want to say I have so much respect for cookie decorating and even though I have a decently steady hand for nail art and would consider myself a pretty decent home baker, cookie decorating is crazy difficult and kinda tiring.

Any suggestions on how I could replicate these strokes on a circle cookie, white background?

I'm an average home baker.

I make cookie boxes for friends and family (some years for 30 of my husband's employees 🫠) every Christmas season. I make the usual kiss cookies, snowballs, snickerdoodles, gingerbread, thin cutouts, nut tossies...

But as I've started really enjoying making cookies with royal icing, I decided to add them to my boxes this year! I did simple designs, and the cookies are on the smaller side. I love making smaller sized cookies so that there's more variety in my boxes.

Long story short: here's the designs I went with to add to my cookie assortment this year :)

While making a batch (for the first time) of allergen friendly cookies (gluten free, dairy free, egg free/ vegan) for a Christmas market I’m attending I start having a (non-serious) allergic reaction to some ingredient in the batch. My hands, arms, face, neck and upper chest and back are all red irritated and slightly swollen…..

The irony is not lost on me. Guess that’s my sign to quit for the night.

Art the clown from The Terrifier franchise. A custom I just finished in the mix of all my Christmas orders lol

I’m having some friends over for a holiday cookie decorating night and I want them to be able to take theirs home with them - any recommendations on icing to use that will set quickly enough to bag up and go home?

I made these cookies about 36 hours ago and now they look entirely messed up (mostly the snowflakes, but also the penguin and polar bear). It almost looks like the food coloring spread into the surrounding white icing. What can I do to prevent that spreading?

I wish I did them all white though. The red and green aren’t doing it for me.

So much fun and was able to do 45 so quickly!