Royal Icing Consistencies (How to flood and outline a cookie)

Hi guys, this is Stephanie from Little Cookie. In this video I'll be showing you guys how to make your icing the right consistency. You will need some bowls, piping bags, a tall glass, and some water. Now first we'll be making outline consistency. You have to add just a few drops of water at a time. We don't want to add too much because it'll get too loose. You can see the icing is ready when it holds its shape but it's still smooth. If you lift up your spoon you'll see that it's a soft peak that comes down. Place your piping bag over your tall cup and scoop your icing inside. I find this the easiest way to do it and the cleanest way. Now for the flood icing. Add your water slowly a bit at a time. I'm using a dropper here because it's easy to control how much water is going in. The icing shouldn't plop off the spoon, it should be riveting off the spoon like you see here. It should settle into itself between 8 and 15 seconds. Just remember if your icing is too thick just water it down. If it's too thin add some powdered sugar to it. Just use the consistency that's right for you. Now before we bag our flood icing you want to cover it with a wet paper towel and let it sit for about 10 minutes or more. When you lift it up you'll see that there's bubbles that rise to the surface. Gently glide your spoon over the top to pop the bubbles. This prevents you having so many bubbles on your finished cookie. Now that our icing is ready to go take your tipless bag, fold it so the seam is in the middle facing up, use some sharp scissors and cut a small hole. Now to outline your cookie touch the piping bag tip down to the corner of your cookie, lift it up and touch down at the next corner. This will ensure that your outline falls nice and smooth and straight. Keep going all the way around the cookie. I'm going to let this outline dry a little bit for a few minutes and then I'll fill it in with my flood icing. Now on to flooding our cookie. We take our flood icing and we start from the outside and we slowly work our way inside. Okay everyone that's it for today thanks for watching hope you enjoyed. If you have any comments or questions please leave them below and don't forget to subscribe to my channel. See you in the next video!