We all have our favorite royal icing recipes, but sometimes they just don’t scale down right when you only need a little.This recipe makes a mini batch, perfect for doing a small batch of cookies, string work accents or a quick session of piping practice.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups 10x confectioner’s sugar, sifted
- 1 tablespoon meringue powder
- Pinch of cream of tartar
- 3-4 tablespoons water
Ensure that all your tools are very clean and grease free before starting.
Combine confectioner’s sugar, meringue powder and cream of tartar in the bowl of a stand mixer.
Slowly add water until a sticky ball has formed, and then add water by the drop until a glue-like consistency is reached.
Beat on the lowest speed for 7-10 minutes.
For thinner icing, add more water a drop at a time until desired consistency is reached.
For flavored icing, substitute 1 teaspoon of water for a clear flavored extract.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing, this will come in very handy for those "little bits" when one needs it...
I did not see when the pinch of cream of tarter is added.
In case of an egg allergie. Is there a subtitute for the meringue powder?
Thanks for your watchful eye deanna1962. I have made the correction, the cream of tartar is added to the other dry ingredients.
MilaJJ, I did a recipe search and found this glaze recipe, which would be great for cookies, but probably not for piping http://cakecentral.com/a/glaze-icing-sugar-cookie-icing
JazzyCake posted a recipe for egg-free Royal Icing in this thread as well http://cakecentral.com/t/659310/egg-free-royal-icing
Good luck!
Does this dry hard? Hard enough to stack?
Wonderful!
Thanks for sharing!
Is there are way to save this to my favorite recipes?
Thanks for sharing!
Sounds good, I have never tried royal icing. This seems easy enough to start with
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Good Gosh!!. Thank you..thank you..thank you!! Just what I needed!!
I have never used royal icing before so this small batch is great for me to get my feet wet, thank you for sharing!
I'm very curious as I don't know what the meringue powder and cream of tartar have to do with the royal icing? I've never used them or saw a recipe with those ingredients and I've tested many royal icing variations! Thanks for the sharing and look forward to hearing back!
Been looking for a recipe this small...THANK YOU !! :-)