Edible Glitter on Royal Icing: Fixing Patchy Coverage

Podcast: The Monégasque Table · MONÉGASQUE

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

Why does edible glitter go on royal icing in patches? Because the icing is drying unevenly while you work — it is a queue problem, not a product problem. Flooded royal icing skins over from the edges and from the thinnest places first. Flood a dozen cookies, start dusting at the first one, and by cookie seven the earliest cookies have closed at the rim and are still open in the middle. You dust the tray, you get shimmer in the centre and nothing at the edge, and it looks like the jar failed. Two fixes work. Shrink the batch — flood thre...