Icing Crumbled in Layers

Hi, SusieC, Congrats on making your first post. I look forward to many more to come!

Is it hard on the outside?

Yep. I wished I would have taken a picture. 

SusieC posted:

Yep. I wished I would have taken a picture. 

Me too.  Sounds like it may have been going on for a while or happen to others and not know it.

Sounds like you dried them too long, and the icing "sheeted" off. Though hard to say without a picture or being there.

Is that even a thing? Drying too long?  That's a possibility because I did have them in the dehydrator longer than what I usually do.  I think my dad might still have a cookie so I'm going to go over there and take a picture. 

SusieC posted:

Is that even a thing? Drying too long?  That's a possibility because I did have them in the dehydrator longer than what I usually do.  I think my dad might still have a cookie so I'm going to go over there and take a picture. 

Yes, definitely. I've had the entire layer of icing come off cookies in big "sheets" (which is why I call it "sheeting") when I've stored cookies very long under dry conditions. Same thing can happen with over-dehydrating.

Drying to long is probably the reason. Ugh! Now I know better. I did take a picture of one but the icing didn’t come off like I’d hope. You can kind of see a little bit but it’s nothing near how it fell off the other day.