How to Prevent Air Bubbles
Maddie GartmannDescription
There’s nothing more frustrating than spending hours baking, mixing, and perfectly decorating your royal icing cookies only for it to be ruined by pesky air bubbles. Sure, you can help prevent them by carefully popping each bubble when you are piping or even gently tapping your cookies on a flat surface, but did you know you can prevent them before they even start? Head into the kitchen as cookie designer Maddie Gartmann demonstrates three ways to prevent air bubbles from forming.
Maddie demonstrates two easy techniques to prevent bubbles while mixing royal icing before showing you how to eliminate air bubbles when your royal icing is in the bag.
One of the most common frustrations in decorating royal icing cookies is getting air bubbles in your icing. There's a couple ways you can combat it, and I'm gonna show you those today. So first, an air bubble looks just like this, like a bubble. Once it's on your cookie, it's easy to get rid of with something called a scribe, or you can use a toothpick just as simply. And let's say this is our cookie, we would just go in and pop that bubble by running our scribe through it.
But we don't wanna have to do this every single time we decorate a cookie. So there's a couple ways that we can prevent them from even getting to that point. Once we've mixed our royal icing in the bowl, you can see those air bubbles started to rise to the top. I let my icing sit for about five to 10 minutes so I can see all of those bubbles come to the top and then just run my spoon or spatula right through those air bubbles. That's the first way you can prevent it.
The second way you can prevent it is to mix your icing in your mixer at a lower speed. You don't need to whip it at its highest speed. Just go low and slow for about five minutes. And then there's one last way that we can prevent air bubbles. And that comes in the bagging process.
So we're going to take some of our icing and put it into our piping bag as normal. And I can already see that it's got some air bubbles in it that are going to transfer into my cookie if I don't get rid of them. So I'll go ahead and get them all the way to the bottom of my bag. Compress it all the way. Tie off or clip your bag.
And then we're gonna do what's called the helicopter technique, which is just whip it around for a few seconds. Make sure your bag has not been cut, or this will make a huge mess in your kitchen. And hold tight so it doesn't go flying. After about 15 seconds, this should eliminate all the air bubbles from your icing, and you won't have this problem on your cookies. So it's pretty easy to get rid of those pesky air bubbles if you just follow a couple of those tricks.
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