Reply to "Royal Icing Drying Too Fast"

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Celese Marie posted:
Hi Julia,
Thank you so much for your reply!
So #1 I am using meringue powder but its the same brand I have always used, does it go bad?
#2 Now that I think about it it was a bit thicker but really not by much!
#3 I thought about that luckily I am doing all shapes and different sizes, but it was happening to all of them! Even the smaller cookies..
#4 I will say most of the time when I do cookies its winter that's the only thing i can think has changed since its summer where I live. I just use air dry.
#5 I haven't used any white so far everything has been colored.. I wish I had photos so i could upload but I don't have access tot he cookies right now.
I did however instead of outlineing the cookie and then flooding i just flooded as i went which kind of sort of worked but i hate that I don't have that initial straight edge..

I believe meringue powder does get old. When it gets older I don't get the same volume and to me the icing doesn't flood as well.

8/25/171:50 PM

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