Sugar Cookie Royal Icing

"This icing offers the perfect consistency for piping. For thinner consistency, add more water, 1 T. at a time"
 
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Ready In:
15mins
Ingredients:
5
Yields:
5 cups
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ingredients

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directions

  • In a large mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, meringue powder and cream of tartar. Add the water and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until combined; beat on high speed for 7-10 minutes or until mixture is very stiff. cover bowl with a damp paper towel and plastic wrap; refrigerate for up to 2 days.

Questions & Replies

  1. How come pictures don't print with the recipe any longer? I love to see the picture when I am cooking and to see as an example how it should look. So sad!
     
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Reviews

  1. Great icing and contrary to popular belief, my gingerbread gal posted is NOT an image of my likeness. My hair is actually much shorter.
     
  2. Perfect royal icing! It is easy to decorate with. Not as stiff as other royal icings I’ve used before but it still hardens like a good royal icing should The idea of using meringue powder may be new to some people but I have a buttercream icing recipe that calls for it and I love that recipe too. Wilton makes it so you can find it online or where they sell cake decorating supplies.
     
  3. What a great icing!!! This is THE royal icing to use for any of your decorating needs! It works perfectly. If you don't want to bite into an overly sweet cookie, just don't use too much or too thick of a layer of this icing to decorate your cookies.
     
  4. Gosh, what nice icing. I was also a bit skeptical in the beginning because of the runny mixture, but it poofed up beautifully after several minutes. I substituted a bit of lemon juice for some of the water and it was a nice, subtle sweet-tart taste. It went perfectly on the Recipe #78700 I made for tonight's Christmas party. Thanks for a goody.
     
  5. This was easy to make and worked well to decorate our cookies (sugar cookies #188686, iced with glaze #188685). I recommend halving the recipe - I halved it and still ended up with LOTS leftover.
     
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Tweaks

  1. Gosh, what nice icing. I was also a bit skeptical in the beginning because of the runny mixture, but it poofed up beautifully after several minutes. I substituted a bit of lemon juice for some of the water and it was a nice, subtle sweet-tart taste. It went perfectly on the Recipe #78700 I made for tonight's Christmas party. Thanks for a goody.
     

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