Hi, New to the board, somewhat new to cookie icing, but I have been doing cakes for several years now.

My question is: I have trouble figuring out how much royal icing to make for outlining and filling cookies. I often make a batch, outline my cookies and then thin the remaining to fill in. I get about half-way through filling and come up short on icing. Since it is nearly impossible to match color, it is very frustrating at this point!!

Any tips on how to appropriately guesstimate icing amounts, or am I simply going about this all wrong to begin with??

Thanks so much!

Gretel

I always make way more than I need. Usually a triple batch.

Sherry

You might want to try just outlining a few, then filling them in, then doing a few more, rather than outlining all of them before filling.

I use Antonia's method of outlining and filling with the same icing, so I do one complete cookie at a time.

That way, if I do run out of icing and have to make more (which happens from time to time ) I don't have to match the color exactly.

Laura.