Royal Icing without Meringue Powder has three ingredients, pasteurized egg whites, lemon juice and confectioner’s sugar. The icing can be tinted with color gel and thinned with water if you want a thinner consistency.
Royal Icing without Meringue Powder Recipe
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Pasteurized egg whites can be found next to the regular eggs in your grocery store. Eggs are heated in their shells to a precise temperature for the exact amount of time needed to kill any bacteria or viruses.
Butter cookie high heels are frosted with red royal icing. If you don’t have any meringue powder you can use this recipe.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 3/4 cup frosting 1x
- Category: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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2 large pasteurized egg whites
2 teaspoons lemon juice
3 cups confectioner’s sugar (sifted)
Coloring gel as desired
Instructions
- Beat egg whites with lemon juice until combined. Add confectioner’s sugar and beat on low speed until smooth.
- For thinner consistency add water a few drops at a time. Add food coloring if desired.
- Royal icing will dry hard, use immediately or store in air tight container. Use a piping bag and tips to create more detailed designs.
Notes
Use this frosting on butter cut out cookies for a hard finish.
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Works well
Does it taste like lemon or should I add vanilla
You can add vanilla or lemon depending on the flavor you want.
The icing is so nice and smooth! I didn’t think that it would dry hard, but to my surprise it works perfectly and gives you a nice shiny finish!
I added food coloring in my icing and it’s really runny. Any suggestions on how to make it thicker?
Oh I’m sorry you are having challenges with the thickness. Add 1 teaspoon of confectioners sugar to thicken.until you get the consistency you want. If that doesn’t work you will have to start over. For coloring best coloring results use small amounts of food gel paste or dry powder food coloring. Hope this is helpful.
Should the egg be room temperature or is it ok cold? Love the recipes!
The egg should be at room temperature for best results. Glad you like the recipe. Happy creating
Worked great! Thanks 🙂
Yeah! Happy Baking and Decorating!