Hello,
My wife decorates cookies and has been having an issue with collapsing icing. She says she's tried a few things to mitigate it like poking holes in the cookie and doing a squiggly line before flooding it but she hasn't had any luck. I was wondering if anyone here has any other tricks they use to stop this issue?
by NinjaInTheAttic
9 Comments
Thicker icing, and doing the lettering when the base layer has just crusted over and not completely dried. Some praying never hurt either!
Are the letters simply filled in? Make sure you’re adding a line of icing in those divot areas first, then cover the design circling back over that line.
Put them immediately in a dehydrator after icing.
Thicker icing, pipe shortly after it crusts over, poke holes in the “puff” area, use a fan for drying (the faster they dry the better)
Make sure the icing is well mixed so there aren’t big air bubbles. Then, when I fill my piping bags, I swing them around a few times to use centrifugal force to bring any bubbles to the surface to
definitely thicken the icing! you might have to get it to a consistency where it needs a lil shake or jiggle with the scribe to settle
I stopped caring 😂. Best way to deal with it.
Has she tried poking holes in the base layer after it’s totally dried before the puff layer?
I think it’s perfectly imperfect looking to be honest. Very nice lettering.