Can someone help me figure out what happened to my cookie?
I’m new to decorating and I experienced what I think is cratering today. Don’t mind my poor attempt at what is supposed to be cow print but how do I fix this for next time?
by Aggravating-Town-151
3 Comments
cookiesadist
The icing cratered. There’s a few reasons it might have happened, but it’s essentially because the white layer sucked the moisture out of the brown. Two common methods to avoid this are to do the brown once the white is set, but not waiting too long, or poking holes in the white before putting the brown on top.
Accomplished-Move936
Ouch. That is some bad cratering. Almost looks like someone poked every spot with the handle end of a scribe when it was half set.
I have seen people poke holes in the first layer. I have also seen people put squiggles in a thicker icing under the flood.
In both cases there are people who blame it works and people who claim it doesn’t.
I haven’t done much that I want puffy yet, but the last one I did, I left the flood for it on the thick side for a flood. I also assumed it would try and crater a little and made it a little “puffier” then I wanted it to end up. It still cratered slightly in the middle, if you looked closely. But it kinda worked for that cause it was a bunch of balloons.
Such_Depth_7928
I’ve tried poking holes and found that the hole ends up sucking in the icing. I personally do a squiggle/line/small blob first then after I fill it in I use a sharp scribe to move it around the top until I see an air bubble and shake it until it fills itself back in (if that makes sense? It’s late 🤣)
OR for me.. fail proof is dehydrator. I have a setting on my oven but if you don’t just put your oven on its lowest setting (usually 100) and crack the door a bit to let the moisture escape.
Also a quick fix if you can’t redo them, I pipe the same color into the crater and use a VERY SLIGHTLY damp brush or my (gloves finger) to smooth it out.
3 Comments
The icing cratered. There’s a few reasons it might have happened, but it’s essentially because the white layer sucked the moisture out of the brown. Two common methods to avoid this are to do the brown once the white is set, but not waiting too long, or poking holes in the white before putting the brown on top.
Ouch. That is some bad cratering. Almost looks like someone poked every spot with the handle end of a scribe when it was half set.
I have seen people poke holes in the first layer. I have also seen people put squiggles in a thicker icing under the flood.
In both cases there are people who blame it works and people who claim it doesn’t.
I haven’t done much that I want puffy yet, but the last one I did, I left the flood for it on the thick side for a flood. I also assumed it would try and crater a little and made it a little “puffier” then I wanted it to end up. It still cratered slightly in the middle, if you looked closely. But it kinda worked for that cause it was a bunch of balloons.
I’ve tried poking holes and found that the hole ends up sucking in the icing. I personally do a squiggle/line/small blob first then after I fill it in I use a sharp scribe to move it around the top until I see an air bubble and shake it until it fills itself back in (if that makes sense? It’s late 🤣)
OR for me.. fail proof is dehydrator. I have a setting on my oven but if you don’t just put your oven on its lowest setting (usually 100) and crack the door a bit to let the moisture escape.
Also a quick fix if you can’t redo them, I pipe the same color into the crater and use a VERY SLIGHTLY damp brush or my (gloves finger) to smooth it out.