Royal Icing Transfers - HELP!

Do you have a dehydrator? If so, place them in there.  It will take no time.

I made some transfers last week before I went to work and they were dry 8 hours later.  I know that does not help you much.  I'm not sure if there is a quicker way.  Maybe a low, low setting in your oven? Or maybe a fan??

Sorry, I don't feel like I have been much help . 

4-5 hours will probably be enough to allow you to remove the transfers, but you will probably find that the underside is not completely dry and therefore will not be totally flat when you peel it off. 

 

A very low oven (heat it to 115 or whatever the lowest temp your oven does) then turn it off and allow some of the heat to escape before putting the transfers in for a few hours. That should be enough to dry them.

 

Good luck! 

Thanks all!  The oven worked. I was able to use them about 4 hours late and they  stayed together pretty well. it was a transfer of a stork so I was a bit worried about the legs but whew - it worked!  

Dry time depends on a few things: (1) thickness of icing to start; (2) size of the transfer; and (3) ambient conditions . . .

 

I've had teeny tiny flowers (1/4 inch) dry in less than 1/2 hour with no assistance from a dehydrator. But they can take longer depending on conditions noted. One benefit of piping transfers on parchment paper (vs. acetate) is that they'll pretty much pop off themselves once they're completely dry, which takes away any guesswork (and some of the breakage that can occur if you try to forcibly remove them). Acetate has the advantage of not buckling (so I tend to use it for longer shapes that I don't want to warp), but it takes a little more effort to slide dry transfers off that surface.

 

As others noted, a dehydrator can be helpful to accelerate the drying process.

Great tip about the oven, @HappyLorisBaking! I gotta try that as I often have problems with the bottom of my transfers drying.

I have never used a dehydrator/oven to dry the icing, so I have a novices question ... you can only use the transfers in a dehydrator, if you do them on parchment, correct?  Can you put acetate in a dehydrator?

Yes, the acetate might buckle in the dehydrator - I find it buckles under warm water even - so best to use parchment in the dehydrator. Or at least that's my experience. 

My parchment paper did also buckle a bit in the oven. It got wavySo the transfers were a bit wonky but they were for family so I don't even think they noticed. I ended up just needing 3 of them others isn't have bad breakage of the others like I thought I might. 

Question: could you use Glaze icing to make transfers?? Will the be sturdy enough to transfer?

Sugaraddict - you've asked a pretty different question than the one at the top of this post, so I forked (moved) it to a topic of its own. Please remember to create new forum topics for brand new questions, but search the site first to make sure the question hasn't already been asked. Thanks!

Everyone - please respond to Sugaraddict's question in the forked forum, link in the comment directly above.