Royal Icing with Meringue Powder after Supper

For Royal Icing with Meringue Powder after Supper, the counter starts with powdered sugar 1, lemon juice juice from approximately 3 medium lemons, and meringue powder. Portion it for 40 Cookies.

Count on 10 minutes of prep, about 10 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• 4 cups powdered sugar 1, 1 pound box
• 6 ½ tablespoons lemon juice juice from approximately 3 medium lemons
• ¼ cup meringue powder
• 1 tablespoon whole milk as needed

How the cooking goes

1. In a mixing bowl or in the bowl of a electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the meringue powder and lemon juice. Whisk until soft peaks form.
2. Put all the powdered sugar and whisk to combine.
3. If making more than one color, separate the icing into different bowls before adding gel food dye.
4. Once you have created the desired color, test the consistency by dragging your spatula through the icing then then pulling it out. Watch how the icing falls off the spatula and back into the bowl. It is best to work with two consistencies for the same color: a flooding consistency and an outlining consistency. This will ensure you have perfect edges and details but the icing is the right thickness and also is easy to pipe and spread.
5. Outlining Consistency: The icing should cascade slowly off your spatula and remaining clearly visible on the surface for a few moments (about 5-6 seconds) before slowly disappearing.
6. Flooding Consistency: The icing should cascade off your spatula and almost disappear instantly into the rest of the icing.
7. You thin to the perfect outlining consistency, transfer some to a piping bag but you leave the majority in the bowl to be thinned further into flooding consistency. Transfer the flooding consistency to a separate piping bag.
8. You can get to this stage in the recipe then then store the colored icing in bags up to a week. If they separate, simply shake the icing in the bag to get it to come together.

After it comes off the heat

Cool the sheet on a rack before the pieces are stacked. A covered tin keeps them for a few days.

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