37+ Royal Icing Recipe Meringue Powder Wilton Pictures. Royal icing recipe 3 tablespoons wilton meringue powder 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (about 1 lb.) 5 tablespoons water step 1: Sugar cookies with royal icingtoday.
Royal icing is light, fluffy, and quite stiff i tried this recipe perfectly as written with all fresh ingredients, and it was brown and not coming together. After trying several recipes for classic royal icing, i came across sweet p's recipe for royal glaze, a cross between royal icing and glaze. So i am new to this whole royal icing world.
The egg whites are what allows the icing to dry hard.
Besides its lovely finish it also colors beautifully which makes it a favorite of however, because of the risk of salmonella when using raw egg whites, some may prefer the recipe i have included using meringue powder. Royal icing is just a mixture of powdered sugar and egg whites. Butter, vanilla extract, crisco, milk, meringue powder, confectioners sugar. The meringue powder clumped up and the icing was horrible to use because clumps of solidified powder kept getting stuck in my tips.