How to Make The BEST ROYAL ICING (Quick & Easy Tasty Recipe)

[Music] hi everyone i'm excited to share with you how i make my royal icing and if you stick around to the end i'll show you how i color my icing how i make my consistencies and how i bag it as well so what you'll need today to make the icing is one bag of powdered sugar three tablespoons of meringue powder two third cups of water one quarter cup of corn syrup the reason we add corn sip to our icing is not only does it add shine to the icing it also adds a little bit of flexibility and it gives your icing a softer bite one tablespoon of vanilla extract or imitation vanilla and one tablespoon of butter emulsion or butter extract and about a teaspoon of white gel color i'll have the full recipe under the video in the description so we're going to start by dumping the powdered sugar in our mixing bowl and we're going to add our meringue powder then on the lowest speed we're gonna stir up these two ingredients until they're nicely mixed together [Music] once they're nicely mixed we can go ahead and add our water make sure you only add about half your water right now the rest will be reserved to thin down the icing further we're going to go ahead and add our corn syrup as well along with our flavorings everything can go in the bowl at once and we're going to keep stirring at low speed until the icing comes together once the icing comes together it's going to look really thick and really ugly but don't worry about it it'll come together in the end if you need to add a touch more water because you still see too much powdered sugar you can go ahead and add a few drops you don't want to add too much because it'll be too thin in the end [Music] you want to maintain a thick consistency at this point and finally i'm going to add my white gel color now there's a couple reasons i do this so the first reason is because i've added real vanilla extract it's colored my icing a little bit darker and it's not white anymore so i want to bring it back to a nice bright white the second reason you want to add white to your icing is because it prevents color bleed so it's super important whether you use you know real extract or imitation clear extract you still want to add the white to your icing once you have all the ingredients in the bowl you want to stop your mixer for a second and scrape down the sides and get all the way down there in the bottom you want to make sure any sugar or anything that wasn't mixed in thoroughly is going to get in there now so now we're going to turn up our mixer to about a 4 5 just for about a minute or two i don't want to over mix it i don't want to mix it too long because what happens if you over mix your royal icing you will get a crumbly dry very aerated icing that it almost crumbles to the touch it doesn't dry with a shine and it's not very pleasant to look at or even to eat so after about a minute i want to scrape down the bowl again just to make sure that everything gets in there and i'm gonna go for another about 30 seconds and whip it up again i'm just going to give it about a medium speed here you can see that the colors changed it's nice and bright here you can see that it's a lot fluffier it's nice and thick that's exactly what we're going for all right so just a little tip here that i learned over the years is i used to mix my royal icing to a super stiff consistency because that's how everybody seemed to be doing it and then i realized it took me forever to thin it down to my outline consistency and then further down to my flood so now what i aim for in my mixer is to mix it straight to my outline consistency which is basically a soft peak it's not super stiff but you can see it's still holding all the little lines and little creases in the icing so that's what i'm looking for it saves me a lot of time you can see here it's got a soft peak so when i pull it out of the icing bowl you can see the tip of the icing flops over nicely but it still holds that peak so while i go to color my icing we want to make sure that we cover this bowl otherwise it'll dry out so make sure to scrape the sides of the bowl so that you don't have too much icing on the sides and we want to cover it with a damp paper towel so now on to how i color my icing so like i mentioned before this is my outline consistency so it's ready to go and what i'm going to do is take enough icing in this bowl for my outline and my flood so this is the way that i get my outline and my flood the exact same color so i first color my icing and if you're not familiar with coloring icing or using gel colors you always want to start with just a few drops it depends how much icing you're coloring you know if it's just a minimal amount a very small let's say a half cup or a cup [Music] you might not need that much color if you've got you know more than a cup or a couple cups of icing you will need more some colors are stronger than others this green that i have this is actually the first time that i'm using it and it's not as strong as i thought it would be so it's always good to start with less color just a few drops just to see how much color the icing will take on [Music] then if you see it's really really light you can add a few more drops and after you get to know your colors a little bit you'll realize you know how much you need and how much you don't it's always easier to color your icing darker if you need to than trying to make it lighter again [Music] so each time you add some color you want to give it a really good stir because you want to incorporate anything you know that's left on the sides or sometimes the gel gets stuck to the spoon so you want to make sure you scrape down the bottom of the bowl and you get it all in there so now that i've got the color that i'm going for we're ready to bag our icing now while i go get my bags you never want to leave a bowl of royal icing out sort of open like this for very long so all my bowls i always make sure to cover them with a damp paper towel this keeps the icing from crusting over and getting hard so i've got my tall glass here and i've got my tipless bag and this is the easiest way i think there is to fill any kind of piping bag so you just fold the bag over top of the glass and i'm going to put a couple spoons of icing into my bag this is my outline consistency it comes in handy as well because if you ever run out of flood icing which has happened to me many times i always know i have extra icing in this color that i could thin down easily i don't use much of my outline icing so it's always a little bit of a reserve as well for me so what you want to do is get all the icing to the bottom of the bag so you want to as much as you can squish it down to the bottom if you have some air bubbles or air pockets you want to just massage the bag a little bit while it's open up top and once you're ready you want to twist the bag a few times and i prefer to tie knots in my bags because it keeps the icing nice and tight in there if you don't have space to tie a knot your bags are too small you put too much icing you can always put one of those little bag clips or something whatever works for you and so now we have our outline [Music] consistency so we go back to our bowl now and i'm going to make my flood consistency what i want to do is add a little bit of the water that we didn't use previously if you haven't made royal icing very many times you want to go slow with the water a little goes a long way and it's again it's easier to add more water than try to thicken up your icing if you've added too much [Music] and i'm looking for a smooth consistency that ribbons off the spoon i want the icing to melt back into itself and come nicely off the spoon i want it to settle on its own nice and flat and then i'll know i have the right consistency this is also personal preference some people like a really thick flood and they like to shake their cookie or top it or thin it out with their scribe other people like a really thin flood i personally prefer a thinner flood because i find it's less time to try and smooth out the flood and so i'm looking for something that settles by itself and here we're almost there you hear people talking about seconds so what they mean is you know if your icing is settling into itself where you cut your icing with your spoon in half how many seconds does it take to come back to being flat so some people like an 8 to 10 second icing and that's usually a looser flood a flood that is very thin and settles by itself you know something that's about 15 to 20 seconds that takes longer to settle down on its own or needs a little bit of help you need to shake a little bit that is a little bit of a thicker flat icing but the one that i use i like to make sure that it ribbons off my spoon nicely and that it comes together easily on its own with a little shake now after i've mixed my flood i don't want to bag it right away what i want to do is cover it back up with a damp paper towel and let it sit for about 10 to 15 minutes the reason i do this is because there's lots of bubbles once you add more water to your royal icing the looser your flood is the more bubbles you're coming you don't want those on your cookies because they don't create a nice smooth surface so we want to pop them before we bag so that our icing comes out nice and smooth when we're doing our cookies and now i'm just running my spoon over the top of the icing to pop all those bubbles while i'm waiting for these bubbles to rise i usually go and color the rest of my icing so by the time i've done all my colors and i come back to the first one all those bubbles are ready to be popped and now we can go ahead and bag our flood icing [Music] so i'm just gonna pour it in my bag here what i like to do when i'm done is put the spoon inside the bag and squeeze it between the piping bag just to get all the excess icing off the spoon [Music] and there you have it the perfect royal icing recipe which is really easy to make comes together quickly and it gives you a beautiful icing to decorate your cookies with this is what i use on all my cookies for my flowers for my writing for my flood everything the recipe will be included in the description below the video and i hope you guys get a chance to try it out let me know how it goes thank you so much for watching and as always happy cookie decorating [Music] you

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Length: 12min 5sec (725 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 03 2021