Sugar Cookie Royal Icing Recipe
Beautifully decorated cut-out cookies for every celebration and holiday are totally attainable at home with this easy sugar cookie royal icing recipe and a few instructions, tips & tricks to give you the confidence you need to try this technique yourself!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 package refrigerated sugar cookie dough such as Pillsbury
- Gel food coloring
Royal Icing Recipe:
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3 TBSP meringue powder
- 8-12 TBSP room temperature water
- Gel food coloring
Instructions
- Combine dough and flour. Roll to ¼” thickness. Cut out ½” x 3” rectangles.
- Bake at 350 on a baking sheet for 8 minutes or until the edges start to brown.
Royal Icing Recipe:
- In a stand mixer (or hand mixer is fine) combine sugar and meringue powder. Add 8 tablespoons of water, using the whisk attachment on your mixer, beat for 1 minute on low.
- Continue to add water one tablespoon at a time until the icing is a good consistency.
- Once it is all mixed, add more water if icing is too hard, a little at a time. If it's too runny, add more powdered sugar.
- Separate the icing into small mixing bowls and add the food coloring until you reach desired color. Mix well. Scoop the icing into piping bags or plastic icing bottles (read notes below for instruction).
Notes
Decorating instructions:
Line around the edge of the cookie with icing and fill in the middle. Use a toothpick to poke bubbles or direct icing into holes. Allow each area you frost to dry before moving on. The icing should completely dry, at room temperature for AT LEAST four hours, before adding piping details to the top.
For Polka Dots: before the flooded area dries, add dots of different colored icing.
For Hearts: before the flooded area dries, add dots of different colored icing, drag a toothpick through each dot, creating a heart.
For Zig zag design: before the flooded area dries, add stripes of different colored icing and then drag a toothpick through the stripes.
Sprinkles: before the flooded area completely dries, add sprinkles.
Candy: "glue" to the cookie with a drop of icing.
If using edible marker: before using on the icing, allow the icing to completely harden for at least four hours.
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