Royal Icing and decorating ideas for cookies

By barbsjustagirl

This is just an example and some tips for using royal icing on cookies.

Ingredients

• Royal Icing:
• 5 1/3 substitute 5 tablespoons meringue powder and 1/3 cup water for raw eggs.
• Ingredients
• 2 2 to 2 large egg whites, or more to thin icing
• 4 4 to 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar, or more to thicken icing
• 1 1 * 1 lemon, juiced
• Directions
• Read more at Marthastewart.com: Royal Icing

Details

Servings 2

Preparation

Step 1

Put icing in a pastry bag fitted with a small plain round tip (such as Ateco #7). Pipe designs on snowflakes; immediately sprinkle with sanding sugar. Let stand 5 minutes; tap off excess sugar. Let icing set completely at room temperature, about 1 hour. Store cookies between layers of parchment in an airtight container at room temperature up to 5 days. Read more at Marthastewart.com: Gingerbread Snowflakes - Martha Stewart Recipes