I am at a loss... I've now made and destroyed 5 snowflakes... I have my "template" under a wax paper on a flat surface and have "traced" my snowflakes with royal icing with success... after leaving them to dry under a fan for a couple hours, I try to gently pry them off the wax paper with a tapered spatula but they break every single time... I've used a Tip #3 for my snowflakes and think that anything larger than that would be to thick... can anyone provide me with any suggestion or maybe guide me in the right direction? I might have the wrong approach to begin with!

My only suggestion is to let them dry longer. I would let them dry at least 24 hours if you have time. I also in an emergency turned the oven on very low , let it cool a little and then put my royal icing transfers in there. Make sure your oven isn't too warm. Needs to be just warm enough to dry your royal icing. Anyway, it has worked for me. good luck

RI is strongest if made from egg whites ( yeah, I know that people are scared of salmonilla, but egg whites makes it the strongest.)


RI snowflakes will be the strongest if dried in a dehydrator. Don't know why but they seem stronger. My RI points and snowflakes come off waxed paper with not much problem. You can switch and try parchment paper, they almost fall off when I use parchment.

How big are the snowflakes that you making? You will have a lot more breakage the larger the snowflakes are. HTH

They definitely need to dry for longer than 3 hours. Leave them alone for at least 12-18 hours.

Alright, I'm giving it a second try. Don't have a dehydrator and only about 11 hours left before these snowflakes have to be on the cake... I'm thinking of either making the snowflakes directly on the cake (scary thought) or just taking a chance and waiting till morning to see if they will work. Crossing fingers... otherwise, I do have little snowflakes cutouts made of gumpaste that I can use as backup... but these RI ones are so pretty! Thank you all for your input... I'm going to try putting them on parchment paper this time too to see if that might help them come off the paper a bit more easily! Here we go!

When I made RI snowflakes for a cake, I did them on waxed paper and went over them twice. Then to remove them, I moved the paper to the edge of the table or counter, then pulled down on the paper, so the snowflake moves to the edge. Put your hand under the snowflake as it comes off of the paper. Does that make sense? I hope so. That way you are not picking up the snowflake, but pulling the paper away. Good Luck!

Great advice from everyone. I have RI snowflakes drying on my table right now. I think your problem is that you are not giving them enough time to dry. Even with more time, some will break so make extras.

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! I made my snowflakes on parchment paper instead of wax paper and they literally slid off the paper with a gentle (and I mean "gentle"!) nudge!!! This is after drying for 3 hours under a fan. I couldn't resist trying to see if they would break on me after only drying for 3 hours and I was delightfully suprised!!!! I had made 6 of them and not one of them broke on me. Not a single one!!!! Parchment Paper is my recommendation for anyone making RI snowflakes!!! I tried both and the difference was unbelieveable! Thanks you sewsweet2 for mentionning parchment paper! ;o)