The only decorating icing you'll ever need.
Ingredients
Makes about 2 cups
Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar and 2 large egg whites until white, thickened, and tripled in volume, about 5 minutes. Add water by the tablespoonful until icing no longer holds a peak. Divide icing into smaller bowls and color with food coloring as desired.
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Reviews (7)
Back to TopA different way of making Royal Icing! Never tried adding water and this made the icing the perfect consistency for icing sugar cookies. Adding the food coloring gel was also very easy with the right consistency. Will use this again in the future! I would double the recipe if decorating more than a dozen cookies.
s_palomino
Stamford, CT
12/23/2018
Perfect, easy icing! If I had known decorating cookies was this easy I would have started earlier. Will be making this again.
jlelliott
Madison, WI
1/3/2017
I used this recipe for brownies that I made, and everyone loved it! I thought it was delicious! Though, I didn't need as much powdered sugar as it called for in the recipe, because I didn't need that much. Super sweet, and super easy to make! Total win!
MissUniverse_
Ohio
7/10/2015
Worked like a charm. We used it to decorate sugar cookies. I followed the suggestions of adding water by teaspoon rather than tablespoon.
mircim
Grand Junction, CO
1/11/2015
So easy, spreadable and I used orange juice instead of water for a little flavor.
hechand1
Jacksonville, Florida
12/23/2013
This icing worked really very nicely for cookies - it's very white and soft sets very quickly (the 2 hours in the recipe in the magazine seems like a very accurate estimate for hard set). I would recommend not adding water by the tablespoon, but by the teaspoon instead. One tablespoon wasn't quite enough, but two was too much. The first batch I made came out perfectly, but the second batch was too runny and I wasn't able to adequately re-thicken it (although that is likely due more to my inexperience than the recipe itself).
sydneyej
Portland, OR
12/20/2013
This was good for icing a gingerbread house. I was able to do really pretty decorations on my house even though I haven't done that kind of icing before. Instead of water, I added a few drops of lemon juice. I really liked that this doesn't require any cream of tartar as I didn't have it.
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Oulu, Finland
12/5/2013
The perfect icing - worked like a charm and great to work with- My search for the perfect royal icing is done. Simple & no fuss. Thank you. Indeed its the most Royal of Royal Icings
B
Canada
1/1/2023
