This royal icing dries nice and firm, so you can easily stock the cookies, wrap them, whatever your preference and transport them.
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PNG. My first go, inspired by a colette peters design i found on flickr. For this technique, outline and flood the cookie with whatever color icing you prefer.
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Royal icing is a hard white icing made from softly beaten egg whites and confectioners sugar that dries to a smooth, hard, matte finish. Traditionally, christmas cakes are covered in a layer of marzipan (brush the cake with warm apricot jam before covering so that the marzipan sticks.) then a layer of either royal icing or fondant. Christmas cake recipes from all your favourite bbc chefs mary berry, delia smith, frances quinn, the hairy bikers and many more.
If your royal icing is too runny, you most likely were using a recipe that was meant for cookies, and using a technique called flooding.
I always have a container of it kicking around in the fridge. Simple iced christmas cake decoration. Alternatively, spread cake with the instant royal icing and use the back of a spoon to raise the icing to give a snow effect! You will certainly wow everyone at your next special occasion, holiday or party.
