Beautiful cookies! I have to bake cookies for my daughter to take to kindergarten for her birthday and I'm going to give this technique a try. One question about the royal icing, though: will it dry rock hard? I tried a royal icing recipe at Christmastime and it was so hard it hurt my teeth to bite it. What can I do to keep it from getting quite that hard? Thanks so much. Hi Rohna, First, I would check out this cookie decorating blog. It gives more details on creating the icing. The fact that you don't beat in a lot of air keeps the icing softer, so this should be fine for small kids. Hope this helps. Wish your daughter Happy Birthday from us! ~ MaryJane

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