1) Do not decorate right before you have to get ready for work. Baking/especially decorating does take some time, and the final masterpiece isn't much of a masterpiece when rushing.
2) Buy TONS of couplers and tips; you'll need one per color and a few extra when they roll behind your stove or elsewhere non-reachable.
3) If your royal icing is too hard, it doesn't flood whatsoever and the spreading you'll do with a tooth pic becomes uneven and ugly.
4) If your royal icing is too runny, it'll get streaky, run over the edge of the piped edge icing, and it'll also drip onto the almost-good-enough-to-take-pics-of-cookies you've already made.
5) Zip-lock bags work almost as well as real decorating bags, but they tend to leak around the coupler because they are thinner. Still, a good substitute if you find yourself out of decorating bags.
6) Adding water to the icing you already have in your bag is not a good idea. Very messy, especially if you add TOO much water.
This is what the sad mushroom looked like, with too runny icing. He's meant to look like Shroom, from the movie.
The white icing was too hard and didn't flood nicely into the corners and edges and the blue icing is obviously too runny and not well blended (see lesson 4 and 6!)
But, the best lesson of all:
7) They were just as yummy to eat and the hubby and the kids loved them just the same. Awh! I guess it IS the inside that counts, after all!
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