Hi, so my lovely husband bought me a dehydrator for Christmas as a surprise and I got to use it for my nephew’s cookie order this week! For context, I am a SAHM, but started selling cookies (glaze, not royal icing) and cookie cakes to friends and family for a little side money. I follow cottage laws in my state.
I have a couple notes/questions:
1) is there a way to help prevent the cookie drying out? My dehydrator is the Elite Gourmet stackable, that has the fan on the bottom. I put the cookies on the top two trays while all trays were stacked. Trays were lined with parchment. I do a softer bake on my cookies, as everyone seems to love how soft they are.
2) how long should cookies be in the dehydrator between layers? Is there a trick to doing certain colors first or does it not matter?
I did 8-10 min a layer. Each color as a “layer” initially, and then wondered if that would make them dry so I tried to combine some.. which leads me to …
3) I’m overall pleased with little to no color bleed, but Myles still got a little color bleed along with Spidey standing up.
I have really had a hard time with color bleed lately and I wondered what it could be, I guess my desk fan wasn’t cutting it for ventilation.
4) I love the finish on some and think others look terrible. I have always wondered if it’s worth trying a dozen with a royal icing recipe, to see if I like the finish better, but usually just go with it being due to operator error. would love any advice on what to do with backgrounds/negative space. I don’t *hate* these but I wasn’t sure if anyone had any ideas for details that I could keep in mind going forward (I use my Cricut design space app to design for the most part + a Smart Sketcher 2.0, so not at all working with the most professional tools).
If you’ve made it this far, thanks so much for reading! Have a great day!
by Stace_face_17
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They look great! This may be a stupid question, but what’s the difference between glaze and royal icing? Those look like icing to me but maybe all the cookies I’ve seen are glaze instead?
Does the dehydrator have a temperature setting? I’ve read to dehydrate at 95° to keep them from drying out. I used mine once for this so far and only did 10 minutes at a time and they didn’t seem to get too dry.