Royal Icing

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Great taste, great look. Had trouble piping.

I used Glad storage bags as recommended, but the icing was so stiff that tiny holes were breaking in the bags causing multiple streams of icing to come out of the bags and make a mess all over. Next time I will incorporate a 1/4 teaspoon of water at a time to the finished icing in the stand mixer and pipe a small amount to make sure it's flowing smoothly. I will also abandon the bag idea altogether and use the mechanical piping systems (metal canisters and plungers rather than plastic and hands.

Used on top of Paula Deen's Snowflake cookie recipe, and everyone loved the taste of both cookie and icing despite the difficulty in decorating.

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I needed a quick way to dress up my cookies for my daughter's Christmas Cookie Exchange at school. This recipe did the trick. Easy to pipe...because I am no expert!

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My first try at making icing and piping cookies. Thank God for my stand mixer. You really do have to beat those egg whites (I used 3 and the vanilla until frothy. Then slowly add the powdered sugar and then beat the heck out of that. The only mistake I made was with the food coloring. The directions said 24 drops to make red and green, NOT. I now have a lovely forest of pastel Christmas trees. But they do taste great and it was my first time, so I'm pleased. That same night Sandra Lee came on and said "if you want a true red or green icing, you have to use the whole bottle of food coloring". Boy could I have used that hint a few hours earlier! I'm icing thumbprint cookies today and I'm going to dump that whole bottle in. I think even with that much food coloring this icing receipe will still set up. I'll let you know.

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I loved this recipe. It was so easy to make, and we had a lot of fun decorating Alton's sugar cookies, and anything else we could find..including the table. In order to figure out how many egg whites to use I got out my electronic scale. Each egg white was 1 oz, so to make the full recipe you'll need 3 egg whites.

The trick to this is the stand mixer because you just need to let the mixer run, like it says. You have plenty of time to go check on the kids, let the dog out, and make sure the cat is staying out of trouble before you get to the stiff peak stage.

And as I found out personally, and as many of the other reviews have suggested, the heavy freezer bags work best for piping...rather than sandwich bags. My 4 year old managed to decorate himself more than the cookie with the icing that was in the smaller sandwich bag.

I look forward to using this recipe over and over again!

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3 Tablespoons equals 1 egg white. 2 Tablespoons equal one once so for this recipe calling for 3 ounces that would be 6 tablespoons of egg whites.

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Can anyone tell me how many eggs do you need to equal 3 oz. of egg white?

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I made this icing for some sugar cookies that we made and it was really tasty! I wouldn't use this icing for piping, it was too hard to do, but it was a great spreading icing. We got a ton of compliments!

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I made this icing for the Roll and Cut cookies, and did it ever turn out well! I only had one egg (white and a fork with which to beat it, so I halved the recipe. Heh, and a good thing I did, for I ran out of cookies. A mannerly sweetness and sets well.

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I used the icing for Halloween cut out cookies and it turned out great.
The icing set well and the taste is great.

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I think I did something wrong here. I consider myself a decent baker and this icing did not turn out right. First of all, I had not seen this episode in a while and had no idea how much "3 ounces of egg" was. I used two egg whites because one just seemed like too little for 4 cups of sugar. The icing came out more like dough and was not spreadable. So I added a little water to thin it out, but now it won't set! My cookies are currently in the freezer to see what happens...