I have 75 brides cookies and 75 tuxedo cookies to color...I'm using the corn syrup 'soft' to the bite icing, but what is the best way to flood the cookies quickly?

Put the icing in a squeeze bottle. it will apply faster. If you are covering the entire cookie, I just dip the face into slightly thinned icing. as it starts to dry, I wipe the sides for a clean edge.

Okay, thanks, I'm going to try both and see which works better for me!

Why not use fondant to cover them? That is much faster, too.

We did try MMF fondant, and they are pretty, but my friend, LJberry, is all about the taste and I am too, and the soft icing seems to 'taste' better than the chewy fondant on a cookie! But I do like the look, the fondant covered cookies are cute!

I am trying to start doing the cookie decorating thing (For my daughters)-- so please forgive my ignorance-but what is flooding and how is id different from decorating? thank you!

Flooding is color flo, thinned RI. this goes in the middle of the cookie & or inbetween the RI outlines.

What is soft icing, is it a type of royal and how does it taste? I have some cookies to make for a baby shower and am looking for both of those qualities. Is the recipe on CC?

Kat

i'm curious about soft icing as well. i am wanting to start doing more cookies and am looking for a way to make them less hard.

Try using Toba's glace. It dries firm to the touch, so you can bag them, but it's still soft underneath. I've found that 10 tsp. of corn syrup mixed into 3 cups of powdered sugar until you get a dough, then add 10 tsp. of corn syrup makes a very nice icing consistency. I then add about 15 drops of the brite white food coloring. It makes enough icing to flood 3 dozen 2.75"-3" round cookies.

Cool thread. I'm just ignorsnt on the cookie thing. I haven't tried to do any cookies except to bake them for my kids.

Thank you, what about RI, is there a softer RI out there that's not that hard and tast good. Or do you use the glace (glaze) to do your borders and decoreate the cookies. I want to be able to do flowers and such.

Penguinprincess,
A easy way to think of flooding is to think of a coloring book and how you colored a drawing. The cookie is the "drawing". First you outline it, then you would color in the lines rubbing the crayola left and right very fast, and praying you did not go out of the lines. Flooding is like that, except unlike crayons which are solid. the icing spreads over the cookie because of it's thin consistency.

I use Toba's glace for the initial coloring of the cookie. Let dry 24 hrs.
Then I go back with RI (Antonia's Royal Icing) for the trim and detail work and I use a #1 tip for that. Let dry another 24 to 48 hrs. Both recipes can be found in CC recipes.

Carleen

i use toba's to flood detail and everything. some of my cookies can get pretty detailed. i think as long as your outline icing is thick enough you can do almost anything. not sure about the flower thing...do you mean like a rose??!!

kneadacookie, RRGibson is so RIGHT!!! Your cookies are beautiful!! You do all of that with the glace, no RI? When you make Toba's glace does it start out thick to do the detail and you just thin it to flood? Boy I love looking at your pics for encouragement. You do great work!

Kat

sorry, been offline for a couple of days. thanks for the great words!!!
katwomen1up...actually the glace icing is just the opposite. when you first make it, it's thin enough to flood. you then have to add powdered sugar to thicken it for the outline.

Thanks kneadacookie, I hope to be making some soon. Thanks for the heads up.

I just ordered Toba's creative cookie book from half.com, since CC is out =(. Will it have the glace recipe in it? Just wondering. Thanks in advance

mhooper1200, after all that sitting out the cookies still taste fresh? Just wondering, I may have an order for 50 and I want them to taste fresh and do them a little ahead of time. I may also have to have them done on a Thursday night, take to work on Friday for the sister to take them to the shower on a Sunday. Just wondering how that would work? If I had to deliver them I would really have to charge because it would be at least 75 to 100 miles!

Kat