Royal Icing

Preparation info
  • Makes approximately

    300

    g
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
World's Best Cakes: 250 great cakes from Raspberry Genoise to Chocolate Kugelhopf

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

  • About

This icing remains glossy when it’s dry and so is great to use when decorating cakes. When you’ve made this a few times, you’ll get the ‘feel’ of this icing - and if you want it a bit thicker then add more sugar, but remember that it only takes a very small amount of extra egg white to make it quite wet. And why not learn how to make your own little piping bag using parchment paper (there are lots of videos online), so you can write with a really fine line? Keep practising and, before you k