Altitude Effects on Cookies and Icing

Hi. I'm visiting my mom, and she asked that I make some cookies for her benifit auction tonight and tomorrow night. These are epic fails. I'm in Mexico working with gas appliances, which I'm not used to. Cookies browned a lot more than I like. She's never heard of a silpat. So we used parchment paper on aluminum sheets. Oven temperature is correct. Royal icing looked great. Colored well. 15-second consistency seemed very thick. I went with 8-second. Still had separation between colors. We went to dinner and 2 hours later the icing was about a 3-second consistency and the white was opaque compared to the already piped white. Same bag. Colors turned grainy upon drying.

Any advice? It's cookies are so ugly I don't want them going out even if it is just for fun. I'm so disappointed. Unfinished, as I am searching for what I did wrong.

Thank you.

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5/5/1710:06 AM

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