Buttercream vs Royal Icing for Cookies: After 200 Decorated Cookies, Here’s My Answer

Buttercream vs Royal Icing for Cookies: After 200 Decorated Cookies, Here's My Answer

I once showed up to my daughter’s school Valentine’s Day party with 30 cookies that looked like they’d survived a natural disaster. I had confidently chosen royal icing for the first time, watched approximately zero tutorial videos, and discovered — mid-party, in front of 25 seven-year-olds and their very polite parents — that my “flooding” … Read more

Royal Icing 101: I Spent Six Months Learning What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Day One

Royal Icing 101: I Spent Six Months Learning What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Day One

The first batch of royal icing cookies I ever made looked like something a toddler had decorated during an earthquake. I had spent three hours cutting out perfect little snowflake shapes, only to watch my icing slide right off the edges, pool into sad little puddles, and dry with giant air bubbles cracking across the … Read more