Royal Icing Recipe

This is the royal icing recipe from Wilton and is perfect for making cookie decorations that last. It's also the icing recipe that is used as "cement" to fasten decorations on cookies.

It's a smooth, hard drying icing and since it's made with Wilton Meringue Powder there's no worry about salmonella that could be a potential problem with icing made from raw egg whites.

Royal Icing Recipe

3 Tablespoons Wilton Meringue Powder
1 lb. (about 4 cups) confectioners' sugar
6 Tablespoons warm water
Coloring (if desired)

Beat all ingredients until icing forms peaks (7-10 minutes at low speed with a heavy-duty mixer, 10-12 minutes at high speed with a hand-held mixer). Recipe makes 3 cups.

If you use liquid food coloring be sure to compensate with less water.

The thickness of your icing can be adjusted simply by adding a little more water to thin it down or a little more sugar to thicken it up.

For proper consistency be sure that all your utensils are completely grease free.

This Royal Icing Recipe will harden quickly so you have to work fast once it's made. Be sure your cookies are all laid out and ready to decorate before you begin making this recipe.