Royal Icing

There are several ways to use this simple icing to decorate baked and cooled cookies: You can spread the icing in a shallow baking dish and dip the cookies, face down, into it; you can pipe it on with a pastry bag or paper cone; you can paint it on with a brush; you can spread it with an icing spatula; or you can dip fork tines into the icing and wave the tines back and forth over the cookies, allowing the icing to drizzle over them. You can also tint the