The Basics of Royal Icing Consistency for Cookie Decorating. It's also quite difficult to describe in words how royal icing consistency should be. Achieving the right royal icing consistencies is the hardest yet the most important part of cookie decorating. That's probably the main reason I've put off writing about it for so long.
You’ve made your icing, using this royal icing recipe and colored it, you’re ready to decorate right?
The icing consistency needs to be adjusted for different decorating techniques. Royal Icing Consistency – What You Need to Know posted by Lisa on January 30, 2018 One of the hardest things I’ve had to do like a cookie decorator was to learn how to make royal icing, and then learn how to make “the right royal icing consistency” for decorating my cookies. Almost, but not quite. Nailing the correct royal icing consistency isn't an exact science.