i iced my cookies lastnight and left them out to dry. i forgot to put them in containers. i'm trying to put an outline on them and everytime i touch them they crumble a little bit. can i put them in the fridge with the royal icing on them? how can i get them to be not so soft again. i need them for tomorrow. and it's a 100 cookies.

thanks,
manya

I've heard that some people use heat lamps. Royal really needs about 12 hours to dry. I would try not to touch the icing while decorating them.

Are you bagging them too?

thr royal is already rock hard but the cookie itself is crumbling. i do have to put them in bags also.

manya

If you decide to throw these ones out and make new batches, I would suggest that you ice your cookies w/ Fondant..That way you don't have to wait for it to dry..that's what I always do. They always come out
the way I like it. good luck

Well, I don't know what happened. Did the dough feel dry when you rolled it out? Maybe too much flour. I'm not sure. I've never heard of that.

Sorry, I can't answer your question.

Like pretty cakes said....make another batch and use fondant-MMF is easy to make, then you could use markers to decorate to save time.

I've made many batches of nofails with Antonia's icing, and I've never had this problem.

The onnly thing I can think of is that maybe the cookies were underbaked to start with, so that when they absorbed some of the liquid from the royal icing, they became too soft.

How long did you bake them, and how thick are they?

the cookies are 1/4 in thick and i baked them for 20 mins. some of the cookies seem soft and some don't. i can't make another batch. ther's no time that's why i was trying to fix these. can i put them in the fridge?

thanks,
manya