Royal Icing Recipe

Just like my update to my sugar cookie recipe, I feel my initial royal icing recipe post requires an update as well. When I initially posted the recipe it worked well then, but I realized it is outdated and not what I use today. Over the past two years, I’ve experimented with other royal icing recipe variations and made a few tweaks until I reached the formula I now use consistently each time I make cookies.

Also, my previous post was very lacking in the details. I was new to blogging then and didn’t think to include more information that could have been helpful. Making royal icing can be very finicky and it’s a topic that deserves a more explanatory post. So here’s my updated royal icing recipe post. It has more pictures of the mixing process and some tips I’ve learned along the way.

Ingredients

• 5 tbspmeringue powder
• 1 tbsplight corn syrup
• 1 tspCLEAR vanilla extract
• 1 cupwater
• 2 lbspowdered sugar

Instructions

1. In a mixer, combine meringue powder, light corn syrup, clear vanilla extract, and water.
2. Using a hand whisk, mix ingredients until the mixture becomes foamy.
3. Add the powdered sugar to the mixture.
4. Hand whisk the mixture until the powdered sugar is incorporated and looks soupy. (I do this step so the powdered sugar doesn’t fly everywhere when I start the mixer in the next step.)
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