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post #1 of 18
4/1/12 at 5:45pm
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royal icing or color flow?

what do you prefer to use for decorated sugar cookie cut outs? and why?
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post #2 of 18
4/1/12 at 5:51pm
I like royal icing and love fondant.

Never heard of color flow.
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post #3 of 18
4/1/12 at 7:51pm
I use Toba Garrett's Glace:

http://cakecentral.com/recipe/toba-garretts-glace-icing

Tastes great and doesn't dry as hard as RI. thumbs_up.gif
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post #4 of 18
4/2/12 at 4:06am
RI wins for me
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post #5 of 18
4/2/12 at 9:42am
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Never heard of color flow.



Oh snap! Color flow used to be the thing back in the day. It's Wilton's version of RI (even though they had a RI recipe on their meringue powder can). It's a powder to which you add other ingredients and it makes icing. The goal is to outline and then "flow in" the icing (i.e. flood). It looks like they still make it too!

http://www.wilton.com/idea/Color-Flow

I think the whole thing was that Wilton pushed Color Flow for bigger plaque-like decorations and cookies but RI for pre-made flowers and detailed string work.

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post #6 of 18
4/2/12 at 10:34am
I prefer a glace. Or buttercream but those don't pack well.
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post #7 of 18
4/2/12 at 2:27pm
I have tried this recipe and I really like it:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/sugar-cookie-icing/

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post #8 of 18
4/8/12 at 5:36pm
I use either Royal Icing or a Meringue Buttercream.
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post #9 of 18
4/8/12 at 6:07pm
I use rolled fondant, but I don't do detailed decos.
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post #10 of 18
4/8/12 at 6:34pm
Royal icing and blossom fondant.
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post #11 of 18
4/8/12 at 11:57pm
OK Annie, this is getting a little weird. That is mine too. We just spent Saturday night making Easter cookies as gifts. I got the recipe from Cookie Crazie.

Another big hit for these cookies is Fondarific fondant.
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post #12 of 18
4/9/12 at 3:49am
That is hilarious, Susan! I love the Cookie Crazie blog as well as Sweet Sugar Belle. Although, I really don't like decorating cookies. They are so much work and they take me forever to do.

So people like fondant on cookies? I have never tried that.

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post #13 of 18
4/9/12 at 4:07am
I like a 50/50 mix of fondant and modelling chocolate, or RI.
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post #14 of 18
4/9/12 at 10:19pm
I am no good at cookie decorating, but my daughters love to do it every Easter and a few other holidays. My daughter's boyfriend's family are some of my best customers and he shared them on Sunday. They really liked the Fondarific ones. We used the NFSC recipe from here.

By the way, the fondant is great for those of us who are cookie decorating challenged. They looked very professional.
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post #15 of 18
4/10/12 at 8:35am
I love fondant, make my own, 50% Rhonda's, 50% Michelle's. While I admire the the folks who do the beautiful flood work, I do not consider myself cookie decorating challenged because I prefer fondant. Here is a pic of my decorated cookie entry in the Central Florida Fair, won first place..
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