Royal Icing Ingredients

Maddie Gartmann

Duration: 5 mins

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Looking for a simple recipe for royal icing? Look no further! Maddie Gartmann, renowned cookie expert, shows you just how simple it is to make your royal icing from scratch.

INGREDIENTS
– ¹⁄₃ cup of meringue powder
– ¹⁄₂ cup warm water
– 2 pounds of powdered sugar
– 1–2 teaspoons of your favorite flavoring (Maddie uses 1 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp almond)
– 1 tablespoon light corn syrup

DIRECTIONS
In a large mixing bowl, Maddie adds the meringue powder, warm water, and flavorings. She whisks the ingredients together, making sure to break up any clumps. She continues whisking until she has a nice, light froth. She then adds the powdered sugar, and using the paddle attachment on the stand mixer, starts slowly mixing. As the sugar becomes incorporated, she adds flavoring and corn syrup and increases the speed to medium-high, then high. She mixes for three minutes total, noting that it is possible to overmix the icing. After three minutes, the royal icing should stand in stiff peaks.

With the royal icing base complete, you’re ready to move on to make your piping icing and flood icing. Let the cookie decorating begin!

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3 Responses to “Royal Icing Ingredients”

Toni Kelley March 20th, 2023

I’m so glad I watched this video, I always thought you had to add a fat to Royal Icing. This frosting looks wonderful can’t wait to try it. Thank you so much ❣️
William Davis April 28th, 2022

i am new to this. What is piping icing & flood icing & what do you do to make them?
William Davis April 28th, 2022

notice that the more i work the Royal icing the stiffer it gets and I can't smooth it out. Is there a way to make it less stiff when working with it?

Hi, my name is Maddy Gartmann. And today, we're going to make Royal icing. All you're going to need is a third a cup of meringue powder, a half a cup of water, two pounds of powdered sugar, and a teaspoon of your favorite flavoring. I like vanilla and almond. First, we're going to take the meringue powder and put it into our bowl. Add our half a cup of warm water And a teaspoon of flavoring. Like I said, I prefer to do vanilla And a little bit of almond. Take a whisk, and we're just going to gently whisk this all together. Making sure to break up any clumps, until we get a nice, light froth. Next we're going to take two pounds of powdered sugar, which is one whole bag and just dump the entire thing in there. And get our bowl onto the mixer. And you'll notice I'm actually using a paddle attachment, not a whisk attachment because we don't wanna be adding any extra air into our icing, that can cause air bubbles down the road. We're gonna start out on low so we don't create a icing tornado of powdered sugar. And then we're going to gently move that up to medium high. Our icing will start to come together. We're going to go even higher. Three minutes. While it's mixing, I'm going to add a squirt, about a tablespoon of corn syrup. Okay, you wanna make sure you don't mix for any longer than three minutes 'cause you can overmix your icing. All right, so let's take a look. Here we have our Royal icing. We should see some nice, stiff peaks. And from here we'll add water to it and create flooding icing, but this is a great base to start for decorating cookies.

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