How To Make Royal Icing For Beginners Tutorial

[Music] hi i'm fiona today i'm going to show you how to make a super easy delicious and amazing royal icing recipe which can be your go-to for all your decorated sugar cookies if you need a good sugar cookie recipe check out my other video on the perfect sugar cookie recipe you will love it there are some things that you'll need spatula mixer measuring cups measuring spoons some water vanilla meringue powder and powdered sugar first you put in a quarter cup of meringue powder and half a cup of water so today i'm just showing you the two basic consistencies to get started decorating cookies start mixing this with the wire whisk because we want to whip it up real good okay so i like to whip that up for about a minute perfect at this point i like to switch from the whisk attachment to the paddle attachment so the paddle attachment and a slower speed will help push all those air bubbles out add some vanilla one teaspoon of vanilla i'm gonna use my shield so so there's not a powdered sugar cloud flying in my face [Music] so now we're going to divide the icing into two separate bowls one for flooding and one for piping and outlining this batch of icing will ice at least three dozen cookies if not more so if you're if you're just making a dozen cookies or a smaller amount of cookies i would have this recipe okay so this is going to be our outlining icing it's a little bit soft not too stiff that will be great for outlining okay so now we're going to add water to this bowl of icing a little at a time just a teaspoon at a time and mix that all in until we get the right flooding consistency [Music] okay now we're getting there [Music] when you want to add color to your icing you should add the color when the icing is at the consistency for outlining and piping just add one drop at a time with what i like to do until i get the right the color that i so want you have some beautifully colored icing ready to go and then from here you would add your water to it to get the flooding consistency so there's no tricks to coloring it you just add the food coloring and mix it up there you have your royal icing recipe that you can use for all your decorated sugar cookies stay tuned for my next video on how to get started actually decorating the cookies and if you enjoyed this video please like comment and subscribe i would love to hear in the comments if you try this and how it worked for you and if you have any questions for me

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Length: 4min 1sec (241 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 28 2021