Secret to Making Royal Icing

[Music] hello my name is Percy Ostrovsky and I'm going to show you today how to make royal icing with egg whites because a lot of people have asked me about royal icing and you know it's so important to know how to do it so I'm going to show now everybody asked me how many eggs on how many powdered sugar depends because all the eggs and different sizes and then what I'm going to show you the consistency how to do it and it's very very simple so I already have the egg white that it came from the refrigerator it doesn't have to be room temperature or any of those things okay I'm just going to put it over here alright and then we are going to add ten eggs be sure it's a 10x if you don't have the thing X powdered sugar you should sift it alright because it's a lot you know for it for eggs has a little bit of the regular sugar is not good for decoration I'm going to at least look what I'm doing I'm just going to add do you know what these are I use like five eggs or six and then just add a little bit of sugar here just like that alright and if you setting X you don't have to sift it or anything now super duper duper important you don't use the whisk you use the palate because if you use the whisk it's going to be a lot of air inside the egg white can you don't need that okay so we are going to put it over here okay and this a little bit noisy but I'm sorry about that alright I never you cannot do it in a fast speed okay so you know you can do something else while that sugar the consistency that we are looking for is like a toothpaste consistency all right so the important thing about doing this royal icing is that it takes a while meaning that inglis intimate starts yes when you are locals you see it really needs more sugar more she were here now if for any reason that takes a lot of sugar you just another egg white you know we're a little bit of egg white and that's it so it's not like to say consuming information like the super need for Oh or should I communicated survey nice okay a little tip you always wrap only things with a rubber band keep it and I don't have to go with clips or anything you pick all right I and usually when I use like takes a X or 5x or setting a I use little like a little bit of glucose and the reason why I use the glucose it's because it makes it stronger and it makes me boil I see shiny - so you know you can take Raven is really nice so look at this this is my glucose and just take a little bit of the SC and I like to I don't like I don't like to add a lot just a little bit this off I'm gonna put it over here it's so sticky my girls okay come on just a little bit see that's perfect and then I just at least for me to present to let him work at least four five three four more minutes okay so you can see that the coach is all mixed up communities the next plane if you want to softer the Royal I see you know it's very very easy when you're going to do the curls the consistency of pearl so everything is just adding a little bit of water in a little container I if I have time in this moment I will show you how to do it okay you can leave it a little bit longer but you know with the beer now it's very important that you keep that in a tight container because you will dry okay and then you know it's very very very important for you guys to put it in the container all right that is good they usually do this really nice but you know in the video I'm going to never like that and I got take big spoon and just put it over here see the consistency it's absolutely beautiful now you can keep this in this container and I usually you make once a week and I use it the entire week you know if it's cold the weather is cold I leave it outside otherwise I put in the refrigerator you know but let me just do this here like if you want of course with the color you kind of the color in the moment you are mixing it so that won't be any problem okay so we are done with this and then what we are going to do we are going to do this thing and it will be perfect okay now let me tell you something about working with egg whites especially when you have like warm weather or something you'll have to use Clorox or lye soap to clean well you have been working with egg whites that's very important don't forget about that okay now I'm going to show you in a minute how to do the consistency for pearls okay this is very easy I'm very easy water in a container I'm going to show you how to make the pearl consistency all right so you just take a little bit of this and depend for the amount that you want to do okay let's do it like this alright and remember always to close this and this is the way I do it I have this water here okay it's like washing the CD I don't like to put like the water inside directly because sometimes you don't have you know the exact amount of water that you need and they made you make a boo-boo so this is the way I do it see see you starts to get soft now and then I just take a little bit more and put it over there and trust me this is a great idea to do it instead of adding the then I'm going to go and look well it's a little bit more so just connect this okay here we are no I just like to it just take my finger and if this returns is perfect see put it over here I mean that little thing goes inside it means that the Pearl is perfect okay so see the consistency now then did you put it in your bag or put the color for the way you want and then you can keep it you know for at least a week and when you have it in the back and you need it just massage you know the bag a little bit and then you can make all your pearls sang everything I hope you enjoy it and I hope you're going to do and good royal icing lots of love god bless you okay bye [Music]

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Length: 12min 9sec (729 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 07 2019