Royal Icing

10 minutes

Royal icing is the classic gingerbread-house-assembly icing and it’s the icing used to decorate all the picturesque sugar cookies you see on Instagram. It can be thinned with a bit of water to get those “floods” of smooth glossy colour, or left a bit thick for precision piping. It dries very hard, so be sure to work quickly and to keep your unused icing in airtight bags or squeeze bottles in the fridge if saving for future use.

 

 

Ingredients

  • 4 egg whites, or 6 tbsp of pasteurized egg white
  • 4 cups icing sugar

Instructions

  1. In a clean, dry mixing bowl whip egg whites till frothy.
  2. Slowly add icing sugar, and mix till incorporated.
  3. Increase mixer speed to medium, and whip until the icing is thick, glossy, and forms stiff peaks.
  4. Add food colouring if desired, transfer to piping bags, and decorate!

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