Is there a way to speed up the drying process of royal icing? I am about to make and decorate some and should be done in a few hours but would like to deliver them tomorrow but could wait till Weds if I had to.

Thanks in advance,
Tabitha

i read in some other thread (i haven't tried this) to put them in the oven with the light on. Not a hot oven, mind you, but just a little warmth. if i can find that other thread i'll repost it.

I've put it in the oven with just the oven light on many of times and it has worked well.

Saturday I was looking for a way to fast dry some royal icing Poinsettias for a cake going out this morning. My DH had taken the cake out of the electric oven about an hour before, so I thought I'd pop them in there where it was slightly warm. Well apparently DH hadn't turned the stove off, so when I went to check on the flowers... OMG!!! I laughed so loud DH came to check. I had about 15 MUTANT blooms.

I guess the meringue powder did what it does and puffed up. They looked like distorted angry red aliens with multiple sets of yellow eyes and long stringy tentacles.

these threads have info about drying cookies... maybe something in one of them will help.

drying cookies

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-614167-drying.html+oven

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-610856-drying.html+oven

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-22560-drying.html+oven

Thanks for the help everyone. I will check out those links

tallgood- that sounds like something I would do, lol

I'm not sure about this but if you have a hairdryer with a cool setting could you use that?