Nick Malgieri

Fluffy Egg White Icing

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    2 cups

    icing or enough to fill several dozen cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

  • About

This variation on old-fashioned boiled frosting works well as a filling for cookies. The traditional method is simplified here: Instead of pouring a hot sugar syrup into beaten egg whites, all the ingredients are combined and heated over a pan of simmering water.

Ingredients

  • 3 large egg whites
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method

  1. Half-fill a 1½ to 2-quart saucepan with water and bring it to a boil over medium heat.
  2. Meanwhile, in the bowl of a standing electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine all the ingredients. When the water in the pan boils, lower the heat so the water mainta