Do you want to learn how to make icing? Well, this homemade icing is so simple to make! You probably have all of the ingredients to make this icing in your pantry right now.
You will find that it will take you the same amount of time to make this icing as it would take to get in your car, go to the store, pay and come back home. Believe me, I know that buying icing is so easy and it is inexpensive! Sometimes the convenience of *not* having to buy something is more convenient!
Use our favorite long handle measuring spoons to measure and stir the ingredients together without much mess!
The colors are only limited by your imagination especially if you have a large pack of food coloring gels! Pick up these plastic squeeze bottles to make decorating less messy too!
This homemade icing recipe is a go-to recipe we use every single year! Use it to make icing for sugar cookies or for decorating goodies that call for icing. It's super easy because that's all I have time to do!
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Learn how to make icing with this easy Royal Icing recipe. It is great to make for decorating sugar cookies!
Use our favorite long handle measuring spoons to measure and stir the ingredients together without much mess!
Hey Andrea, thanks for the recipe, just wanted to add for those who can’t use corn products or do not have any corn syrup that simple syrup works well and it is simply made with sugar. The result was still great, thank you for the tip on using plastic squirt bottles!
Great suggestion Sophie! Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks, I will cook it for my family
Hope they like it ;)
Can you make this without the almond extract?
Keli, yes you can. Substitute vanilla extract instead if you want.
Hi. I want to ask if is royal using too stiff for russian icing tips? Thank you. I just start cupcakes and cakes business (so far I’m still working on my web site) ;)
Hi Lucia, I don’t know if this would work with russian icing tips. It’s a true royal icing that has more of a liquidy texture.
Do you know how long the icing keeps? I️ would like to make it a day n advance of using.
Thanks! Sounds yummy!
Shanda, you would be safe to keep it within a few days. I wouldn’t keep it much past that since there is milk in it. HTH!
Does this have to be stored in the refrigerator or is it ok out? Also does it harden to be able to stack cookies???
Lindsay, it’s ok to keep out for a while as we did just this past weekend. It does harden on the cookies so you will need to leave them out for a while to dry and then you can stack them just fine.
Can you make the icing in advance and store in the squeeze bottles? How can you bring the icing back to life to continue icing cookies?
K, yes you can make in advance and store in the squeeze bottles. If it becomes too thick, add a tablespoon of milk to it and shake up.
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