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Chocolate cookies decorated with smooth royal icing shaped like Miffy faces.

Easy Royal Icing Recipe

Transform your cookies into eye-catching treats with this easy Royal Icing recipe. With three simple ingredients and a splash of colour, it’s ideal for outlining and flooding cookies for any occasion.

Course: Frosting, icing
Cuisine: International
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Drying Time: 6 hours
Total Time: 6 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 1 ½ cups of icing
Author: Manuela Zangara

Ingredients

  • 1 egg white
  • 300 g – 10.5 oz icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice

Instructions

  1. Lightly beat the egg white.
  2. Add the icing sugar and whip it with an electric hand mixer until smooth and pearl-like.
  3. Add the lemon juice and keep whipping until completely incorporated.

Recipe Notes

  • To thin it down a little for flooding cookies, add a small amount of water, about 1 teaspoon at a time, until you reach the desired consistency.
  • If you want a coloured icing, add a few drops of liquid food colouring.