Royal icing is a sugar-and-egg-white-based frosting that fully hardens, making it a favorite icing for cookie decorating. Its pure white color also makes it easy to mix vibrant colors. Because the eggs aren’t cooked, this recipe calls for pasteurized egg whites, which can be found in most grocery stores, but separated egg whites may be used as well. Alternatively, many specialty cake supply stores sell meringue powder or royal icing powder (see Resources, page 190) to which you need only add water (and sometimes confectioners’ sugar) to mix it. Frosting cookies with royal icing is somewhat difficult and takes practice to do really well, but once you’ve mastered it, it will take your holiday and special events cookies to a whole new level (see For Royal Icing Cookies, page 12).
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