Decorated Cookies Royal Icing

This royal icing for cookie decorating recipe will make a 1 cup batch of icing that is enough for about 12 cookies just double triple ect the recipe to make as much frosting as you are going to need.

Decorated cookies royal icing. Royal icing is a decorative hard white icing made with egg whites powdered sugar and some flavoring and coloring used to decorate cookies. You ll notice in the video below that my icing is fairly thick to begin with. Adjust the consistency with water.

I tend to make a batch for each color i am going to need just to make my life easier. Prep a thin royal icing place it in a shallow bowl then dip the top of your cutout cookies into the icing done. Add water in 1 teaspoon increments stirring between each until desired consistency is reached.

And dipping cookies is just as easy as it sounds. Mix until the icing is smooth and evenly colored 1 to 2 minutes. This technique is known as a dam.

When decorating cookies with royal icing use either a squeeze bottle our test kitchen editors preference or a pastry bag fitted with a fine tip. The icing can be used as is or thinned out with water to achieve a pourable consistency for flooding cookies. I use my whisk attachment on my mixer.

Pipe a border around your cookie shape with the icing. This method serves as a great base for all kinds of embellishments. If you ve never worked with royal icing before check out our recipe for step by step instructions on how to make it as well as basic piping and flooding techniques.