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royal icing recipe

(2 ratings)
Kitchen Crew
By Kitchen Crew

Learn how to make homemade royal icing to decorate your favorite sugar cookies during the holidays!

(2 ratings)
method No-Cook or Other

Ingredients For royal icing recipe

  • 4
    Pasteurized egg whites
  • 1 tsp
    Clear extract of choice (like almond, vanilla or lemon)
  • 4 c
    Sifted powdered sugar

How To Make royal icing recipe

  • Mixer, sifter and ingredients needed for royal icing
    1
    Gather supplies.
  • Sifting sugar into metal bowl
    2
    Sift 4 cups of powdered sugar.
  • whites and yolks from 4 eggs in bowl
    3
    Separate whites and yolks from 4 eggs.
  • Adding extract into mixing bowl with egg whites
    4
    Pour egg whites into mixing bowl and add extract
  • Egg whites and extract mixed together until frothy
    5
    Mix on medium for a few minutes until egg whites are frothy.
  • Adding powdered sugar to red KitchenAid mixer
    6
    On medium speed, mix half the powdered sugar.
  • Spatula scraping down edges in mixing bowl
    7
    Scrape down edges.
  • Royal icing ingredients mixing in KitchenAid mixer
    8
    Add the remaining powdered sugar and mix.
  • Stand mixer mixing ingredients on high
    9
    Mix on high for approximately 7 minutes.
  • Frosting in bowl with peaks
    10
    When properly mixed, it should form peaks.
  • Royal icing covered in bowl on countertop
    11
    Cover while not using.
  • Gel tints on counter used to color Royal Icing
    12
    Use gel tints for coloring.
  • https://youtu.be/hdP3UFer4Z4
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