HEY SOMEONE HELP ME...


I just made some for my cookies and there is absoutely no flavor in the icing!!! It taste yucky... what am i doing wrong? what is taht you do do you put some flavor in the icing or not?

I think a little (very little) lemon, orange or vanilla flavoring is great. Either extract or lorann oil... to your taste. I always put vanilla, and have never thought it was without taste, expecially combined with the cookie.
<<<<<<Cheryl

Have you tried it on a cookie? I think the icing is fabulous with cookies, but not by itself (no kidding - it's not supposed to be eaten alone).

I don't know about putting Lorann Oils in - any fat will break royal down. I don't think that's such a good idea. Extracts, maybe, but not oil.

Christy

Sorry...it's because the meringue powder I purchase here locally already contains vanillin flavouring....an ingredient that I didn't realize Wilton and some other brands do NOT contain when I created my recipe years ago.

You can certainly add extract, but make sure it contains no oil. Royal icing dries slower and at worst can even break down when it is mixed with oil.

Antonia74's icing ROCKS!!!! And, so does she, BTW...so, SO, SOOOOO helpful!!!!!!!!

I, too, usually add a bit of extract and it tastes fabulous with NFSC....

Lish

I LOVE Antonia74's icing and so do all of my customers. I use almond extract in my cookies and my icing; it is everyones favorite flavor.

I am so glad I read this post, I'm actually trying Antonia's icing recipe for the first time tomorrow. Thanks a lot, this was of great help.

I started using MMF on my cookies and they were so sweet, did not like it at all. I decided to use Antonia's RI since everyone here loves it and now I am hooked!! Love that stuff on my cookies. I just do it exactly as the recipe said, and no one has any complaints. Maybe is like Cranberryco said, eating it with the cookie might taste better for you. I hope you give it a try again.

I am so glad I read this post... will going to try it too. Thanks Antonia!

I am having trouble putting the icing on the cookie.. I wanted to make a smiley faces and I don tknow how to make it flow around the cookie? i want to cover the whole cookie in yellow icing don't know what I am doing wrong here.... icing seems to be little thick but not tooo thick...



I hope someone can help me here...

Outline it first with a smaller tip, like a #2 or #3...then let it dry a few minutes. Come back and flood the entire cookie with a bigger tip like a #4 or #5. Circles are pretty hard to flood accurately without an outline, so just make it easier on yourself and do one first.

I wrote a whole article for this site on the basics of decorating cookies, with step-by-step photos:

http://www.cakecentral.com/article54-How-To-Bake--Decorate-Cookies.html

Here are some Smiley Face cookies I did last month and some from a year ago:

So sorry for the bad advice! I shouldn't suggest anything I haven't already tried (still learning!). I HAVE added extracts and usually use vanilla with great results. Thank you Antonia for your tutorial. <<<Cheryl

They are so awesome.... Pretty cookies. SMILE