Quick and Easy Royal Icing Recipe

in this video I want to show you my quick and easy royal icing recipe to make this really simple rural icing recipe you'll need powdered sugar meringue powder water and vanilla extract you can use any flavoring you like such as lemon juice almond extract or really anything else will work first I add my meringue powder to my powdered sugar some people will actually whip their meringue powder with water before adding it to their powdered sugar but I prefer this method because there will be less air bubbles in the resulting icing once that's mixed together I'll add in my water and my flavouring and I'm going to add a little bit more water to my cup just because I'll need it to thin it down later and just in case my icing is a little too dry to begin with so using my hand mixer at a low speed I'm going to mix together all the ingredients until it starts to come together you'll see it's a little bit too crumbly at first I'm going to add just a little bit more water always add water in just a little bit at a time because you don't want to thin it down too quickly after a few minutes of mixing on a low speed will start to come together into something that's really nice and creamy but it's also a really thick icing and this is the start of your stiff consistency icing I'm going to keep mixing on a low to medium speed for another about five minutes until it's really nice and fluffy and opaque you'll actually see the color change over time it'll start as like a you know kind of a yellowy off-white color but the more air bubbles you mix into the icing it'll start to become whiter and whiter of course if you need a really will stark white icing either omit the vanilla completely and or add in a white food coloring and now we have our nice stiff consistency icing and you can tell it's stiff consistency because it's forming a fairly stiff peak the peak pops up and curls over just slightly when the spoon is lifted up from the surface and this is the perfect consistency to use when you're using any sort of piping tip and you want to create a lot of detail such as with a flower or a leaf or even a nice border otherwise it's really hard to pipe I wouldn't recommend outlining or flooding with this because it's very stiff and thick speaking of outlining I'm gonna thin this down a little bit by adding a little bit more water just a little bit at a time until I get the perfect piping consistency icing and piping consistency icing feels a lot like a toothpaste consistency it's kind of thick but it doesn't form a stiff peak it sort of flows back into into itself but it doesn't form a flat surface so you can see it's a really gentle peak when the spoon has lifted up from the surface and it will it'll be perfect for writing for outlining or for creating any sort of small details to fill the piping bag I stick the corner of the piping bag into the bottom of a cup and I fold the edges over the lip of the cup and then I spoon the icing directly into the piping bag and this ensures that there is not a lot of mess there is an icing that's going everywhere and it just makes it really easy to fill my piping bag now to create the flood consistency icing and flood consistency icing can be a lot of different thicknesses a lot of people like 22nd 15 second or 10 second you'll hear a lot of timing involved with flood consistency and that just means how long it takes for the icing to come back to a flat surface so some people prefer really fast a really thin icing such as a 10 second icing some people prefer something a little bit thicker like a 20 second I find that the perfect icing for me is about 10 to 15 seconds you'll see the icing is flowing back into a nice smooth surface after just a few seconds and even after all these years I still count to myself to make sure I have the right consistency icing but that went by really fast so let's count again 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and now it's almost completely back to a flat surface that's what I want but we're not quite ready to put our icing into a piping bag first we want to get rid of as many air bubbles as possible and to do that I let my icing sit for 30 seconds to a minute and watch all those air bubbles rise to the surface and then I take my spatula and pop them by just kind of scraping it over the surface of the icing and then stirring it by spreading that icing around the edges of the bowl sometimes I'll even do this whole step a second time just to make sure there aren't any more air bubbles you okay now I think we've gotten rid of most if not all of the air bubbles that exists in that icing so it's time to put into our piping bag so once again I put a piping bag into a cup and I fold the edges of the piping bag over the lip of the cup and then spoon my icing directly into the piping bag and because I'm using a little bit more flood consistency icing than you know piping or stiff consistency I don't really have room in my piping bag to knot the end of it so I use this bag clip you can really use any bag clip or even a rubber band to tie it off it just makes it a little bit easier and you can refill the bag easily so there you have it that's how I make my roll icing I hope you enjoyed this video and if you want to see more cookie decorating videos and how to's subscribe below

Channel: The Honey Blonde

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Keywords: cookie decorating, sugar cookies, royal icing, recipe

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Length: 5min 31sec (331 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2020