Reply to "Icing Drying Too Quickly with Wet-on-Wet/Marbling Techniques - Help, Please!"

As for your question, it's truly hard to say from just looking at this photo if your icing was too thick or you were too slow. It could be either one of these things, or a combination of both. But judging from the flatness of some of the cookie icing (especially the two marbled hearts to the left, which look really flat), my guess is the icing was probably thin enough, and you worked a little too slowly. I actually like to work with the icing as thick as possible for marbling (to prevent colors from bleeding), but this means I have to work pretty darn fast, with no delay between applying colors and then doing the pull-through to create the marbled effect. Hope this helps a bit.