The A la Carte section for Dec. 23 will be about using refrigerated cookie dough (homemade and store bought) to make cookies and other goodies for Santa. For one of the photographs that will accompany the story, I decided to make cut-out cookies and decorate them. To save time, I bought three tubes of Betty Crocker Easy Squeeze Decorating icing and a package of decorating tips.
That was a waste of money.
The product was easy to squeeze, but nothing happened. Not only did it take a strong hand to get the icing out of the tube, but it would not spread. I managed to ice this big Santa cookie, but what I thought would be a 5-minute task, took 30 minutes.
There’s nothing easy about Easy Squeeze.
It was very difficult to use. I could have made a homemade icing, dug out my decorating bags and tips in a third of the time it took to use this convenience product.
please be advised you are not by yourself regarding the squeeze tubes of icing.
here is the remedy. fill a cup of warm water. drop the tube in the water. every few minutes take the tube out and squeeze it. (top it still on). after 3-5 minutes, remove and squirt away.
always test it first. if too loose, set it aside for 1 minute. then try again.
re: squeeze tubes
fill cup with warm water. drop tube into water. pull back out of water after 1 minute and squeeze tube – with top still on.
wait one more minute and repeat process.
take top off, do a test squeeze. if too loose, let it sit for 1 minute and try again.
these icing containers are air tight and who knows how long they’ve been sitting on a shelf.
the heat loosens the sugars.
Annie Simmons of Lexington shares this tip:
Take the tube of icing and put in a glass of warm water. Top on. After one minute, remove and squeeze tube. top still on.
After another minute, remove from glass and squeeze again. Top still on.
Then remove the top and test squeeze. if too loose, let stand for 1 minute for cooling, then try again.
The heat loosens the sugars.
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I just bought the tips and the icing to decorate my son’s 13th birthday cake tonight. I even tried warming the frosting but NOTHING will come out. This is the worst product and should be removed from the shelves. It’s ironic that the name is “easy squeeze”. My son’s cake has no message on it – only bare candles.
I just bought that junk to decorate my son’s 2nd birthday cake and the ‘EASY SQUEEZE” is the biggest false advertising I have ever seen! I kneaded the bag like it said to do and after several failed attempts even my husband tried to squeeze some out and failed to even get some to the tip. So I tried warming it up in a microwave to see if that would help and it didn’t budge! I could feel the icing inside was soft and gooey but when I squeezed the smallest amount would come out of the tip and then stop. I was squeezing with all my might!!!!! I even think the tips they sell with the product are junk! DO NOT BUY BETTY CROCKER EASY SQUEEZE ICING!!!