Chocolate Royal Icing

"I tried to make brown royal icing to decorate bear shaped cookies. But even with good quality food color paste, I couldn't get it dark enough. This was the answer."
 
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photo by Debbie K. photo by Debbie K.
photo by Debbie K.
photo by Debbie K. photo by Debbie K.
photo by Jen R. photo by Jen R.
Ready In:
10mins
Ingredients:
4
Yields:
4 cups
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ingredients

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directions

  • Mix powdered sugar, cocoa and egg whites.
  • Add water slowly until the icing is the consistency of thick frosting for outlining and thin with more water to fill.

Questions & Replies

  1. Did the icing dry quickly? Were you able to stack the cookies without ruining the decorated cookie?
     
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Reviews

  1. Thank you for sharing! I needed a brown royal icing for my acorn cookies and this worked perfect. The original recipe worked creat for the color of the body of the acorn, then I added a bit of black gel food coloring to deepen the color for the cap. Great tastin also!!
     
  2. This was the perfect frosting. I've never made chocolate royal icing. It was delicious! It hardened perfectly on my sugar cookies. I will definitely make this frosting again!
     
  3. Thanks so much for posting this recipe! I was having a really hard time achieving true black that wasn't bitter with my regular royal icing recipe. This worked like a charm! And tasted great too :)
     
  4. went very well with my dark gingerbread house created for competition...works well and looks beautiful.
     
  5. Excellent to have in your repitoire! This tastes good and looks beautiful, too. Quick and easy to make.
     
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Strangely enough, I've become a better cook to lose weight. I joined eDiets and lost 100 pounds. Now I'm on the look out for tasty recipes that are easy to fix (I teach and often don't get home until after 5PM). In addition to my kitchen, my favorite place is my garden. I have a combination flower/herb/veggie garden and love to grow a variety of vintage or unusual plants. Because I teach I actually DO get a month off. I get up early to garden, sleep the hot afternoons away, then cook, read and watch movies. My favorite cookbooks are Crazy Plates and Looneyspoons. They are full of delicious, lowfat recipes with tons of trivia and humor. I teach science in a converted home ec kitchen. I love to use food as a teaching tool - making cheese to teach enzyme action, pickles to teach osmosis and diffusion, fudge to demonstrate igneous rock formation. I love kitchen gadgets, KitchenAid, Le Creuset cookware and my cats.
 
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