Royal Icing

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This is my  favorite icing for decorating  my favorite sugar cookies! It's quick and easy to make, with very simple ingredients. Great for cookies, gingerbread houses, I  have even used it to frost my Christmas fruit cake. The icing dries nice and hard, tastes yummy, and will make your cookies look beautiful. So bake some cookies, and gather up the family to help decorate them. Listen it will be a rather messy event, but I promise it will be fun and you will be creating so yummy food memories!




 cookies baked and cooled ( sugar cookie recipe )

2 cups powdered/icing sugar
2 egg whites (or 1/4 cup liquid egg whites I prefer to use these for food safety)
2 teaspoons lemon juice ( this helps to harden the icing)

*food coloring in desired colors
*sprinkles

 In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whip attachment, beat the egg whites on high speed until foamy.

Switch to low speed and gradually sift the sugar into the egg whites until it's completely incorporated. Because both ingredients are white, it's easy to miss lumps. Look carefully.

Add the lemon juice and beat on high speed until the icing is very thick and forms stiff peaks, about 5 to 10 minutes.

At this point, you can add the food coloring if you're only going to need a full batch of one color.
But if you need more than one color, separate whatever quantities of icing you need into individual bowls and just stir in the coloring you want.

Now you can use the icing to decorate your cookies.

Some tips/help
*top with sprinkles right away, while the surface of the icing is still wet. Then, allow plenty of time for the icing to completely dry/set.
*you can use, piping bags, spoons, cookies can even be dipped in the icing
*If you want, you can thin the icing out with hot water, pipe the borders with the icing  as is and then thin it out to fill in the centers.
* use the royal icing right away or store it in an airtight container
*you can store it for a few days in the fridge,


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