I haven't been doing cookies very long, but I do my black outlines in Royal after glazing, then add the color. Sometimes touching up with the oulining if I covered any of it. I think Karen's cookies has tutorials as do some of the other cookie sites. Hopefully someone will jump in here with the web addys.
It depends. If you flooding cookies then do the outline first. If your painting cookies, do the outline after you've painted the cookies.
I use coal black. It's probably the best for getting a true black. It still takes a lot but it will help to thin your RI to the right consistency. Also if you let the RI set overnight it will darken. Some people make pink first, then add black.
I outline almost all my cookies in black. I have many in my album if you want to see how they come out.
Good luck.
I find the best way to get black icing is to add cocoa powder to your royal icing to make it brown first then add your color. I personally like Americolor super black. Hope this helps.
Okay, now I'm really confused!! Fairytale, what is the difference between
painting and flooding and if you put the black lines on first how do you keep the other colors from bleeding in? I guess their is alot more to making perfect cookies than I expected. Will make a batch of icing and add the black and let it sit.
Thanks everyone for all your help!! Someone(hint, hint!!) should do a tutorial on decorating and outlining cookies!!
Here's a link to antonia74's tutorial on baking and decorating cookies. HTH
http://www.cakecentral.com/article54-How-To-Bake--Decorate-Cookies.html
Okay, now I'm really confused!! Fairytale, what is the difference between
painting and flooding and if you put the black lines on first how do you keep the other colors from bleeding in? I guess their is alot more to making perfect cookies than I expected. Will make a batch of icing and add the black and let it sit.
Thanks everyone for all your help!! Someone(hint, hint!!) should do a tutorial on decorating and outlining cookies!!
There are many differences between painting and flooding. With painting, the coat of icing on the cookie is thinner. You literally paint the cookie, just like "paint by the numbers". You'll have rough edges between colors and that's where you outling in black. The advantage to painting is you never get "cave-ins" when it dries because the coat of icing is rather thin.
With flooding, your create a dam (black outline) around where you want the color. Then you load up your icing bag and flood the area. You need to make sure you don't use to much icing or it can go over the edges. It can also bulge leaving an uneven look. Your icing needs to have the right consistency or you'll have cave-ins.
You need to let each color dry to the point that it at least has a "skin" on it. This will prevent colors from running into each other. I've never had a problem with bleeding.
Good luck.
Thanks Fairytale, I am very inexperienced in cookies and everytime I try and they don't look like everyones so you get very discouraged. Now all my daughters friends are turning 16 this year and each girl does something different for the day in school to celebrate and my "wonderful"
daughter volunteered me for cookies! So I guess if I can get it figured out I will be making alot of these this year.
Thanks so much for all your help!
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