Reply to "Dark Pitted Look After Icing Dries"

mulberry_tGobbler

Sounds like butter bleed. LilaLoa did a great blog post on cookie troubleshooting and this topic came up a lot. Humidity is a big factor, so letting them dry sealed in a container would definitely cause this as the water in the icing has no where to go. I have battled butter bleed since I've been decorating, and have been able to fix it by not thinning my icing too much, putting a paper towel over the cookies for about 15 minutes before icing to soak up and excess butter, using a table fan to dry, don't let them dry near the dishwasher, and some meringue powders gave me more trouble than others. I now use dried egg whites using Lila Loa's RI recipe with much better results. Good luck!

3/31/1711:23 PM

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