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Royal Icing - Problems!

lanod2407 · 2009-12-31 00:55:30

Christmas Cake is a real tradition in our house, but for the past couple of years the Royal Icing has been problematic - it goes hard within a couple of days, and becomes really hard to cut the cake without breaking the icing to bits ............ any advice?

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31-12-2009 1:55am

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lanod2407

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Christmas Cake is a real tradition in our house, but for the past couple of years the Royal Icing has been problematic - it goes hard within a couple of days, and becomes really hard to cut the cake without breaking the icing to bits ............ any advice?

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#2 31-12-2009 10:03am
Victor

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This is normal.

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#3 31-12-2009 5:00pm
DreamC

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Royal icing going hard is normal. If you do not want it to be that way just add a drop of glycerine into your Royal Icing that you are going to use for icing the cakes. It will prevent it from breaking.

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#4 04-01-2010 2:50pm
lanod2407

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Probably didn't add enough glycerine - need a bolt-cutters and safety glasses to cut the icing right now!!!!

Happy New Year - Bah Humbug!!

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