Name: Royal Icing Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 32 ounces powdered sugar (sifted); 5 ounces pasteurized egg whites; 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (substitute any flavor you desire)

Royal icing is exactly what you need for your hoilday baking needs including but not limited to gingerbread houses, and piping, flooding, and glazing Christmas cookies. Using egg whites, this royal icing dries hard and smooth. This recipe makes enough to cover 80 medium sized cookies!

Royal Icing Recipe

sugar

cream of tartar

vanilla extract (substitute any flavor you desire)

First, combine your egg whites, sifted powdered sugar, and cream of tartar in the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attached. 

Mix the ingredients on low to get them combined, and then bump up the speed to high (speed 5 on KitchenAid, speed 4 on the Bosch) for 1-2 minutes.

Add in your vanilla extract and whip it until it’s white. There is no need to mix it for longer than 5 minutes. 

Then, place the royal icing into a bowl or container with a lid. Your THICK royal icing is now ready to be thinned down to the consistency you desire!

Royal Icing Instructions

This recipe was perfect for my gingerbread cookies!

Hey Liz, I just tried to make this recipe with meringue powder instead of egg whites, and mixing it was just crumbs.  I had to keep adding water to get it to come together.  I double checked the back of my meringue powder container, and it's actually 2 tsp meringue powder and 2 Tbsp water per egg white.  I think you have a typo above (it says tsp of water)!  I'm now ready to assemble the gingerbread house.  Thank you for all that you do.

How would you store any unused icing and how long would it last?

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Royal Icing Recipe

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total: 5 minutes

Servings: 4

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