Wilton Royal Icing Recipe | Wilton

Learn how to make the perfect royal icing recipe for making decorations that last! Royal icing is a smooth, hard-drying icing is perfect for making flowers, rosettes, and other decorations in advance. You can even use royal icing, sometimes called cookie icing, to cover and decorate cookies!

Note: This recipe is for a stiff consistency icing. Depending on your decoration, you may need to adjust this recipe to medium or thin consistency.

INGREDIENTS:
4 cups (about 1 lb.) confectioners’ sugar
5 tablespoons warm water

TOOLS:
Electric mixer with paddle attachment (or hand mixer with beaters)
Large bowl

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[wilton]

Learn how to make the perfect royal icing recipe for making decorations that last! Royal icing is a smooth, hard-drying icing is perfect for making flowers, rosettes, and other decorations in advance. You can even use royal icing, sometimes called cookie icing, to cover and decorate cookies!

[banzaitnt]

still have the royal icing flowers from my wedding 20 yrs a plastic box in the fridge

[DaniellesMicoMarley]

thank you so much for this recipe and thanks to the person that said to sift the sugar. I actually cut this recipe in thirds and it made a little less then half a cup. I only needed a super small amount :) thank you

[Thefnaffnfgamer]

Love this recipe, tried it out today for sugar eggs and it was perfect!

[jennajosten_thefairy]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I was very confused because my friend says that "cookie icing" is just sugar and water, but I knew that was wrong and I had to see for myself!

[junandjing]

I love using Wilton because its perfect in baking. 👏👏

[diananeenooth]

You’re great excellent as a teacher 😊 Love Wilton as much as you are ! 🙏🏻

[saraswinerton]

Thank you so much you made this so easy a lot videos I look at made it look hard

[ashleyferguson]

This is a great video. I've used royal icing in the past but I definitely learned some helpful hints. I ruined my hand mixer with royal icing! I hadn't even mixed it very long. Now I have a kitchenaid mixer so I hope to have better luck

[beppo]

You are great! Very clear your explanations congratulations

[colinpowell]

I tried this last year for Christmas cookie decorating. The icing came out like in the video. I added a bit more water to get a thinner icing for flooding the cookies. The meringue powder works wonderfully. The taste is a bit different with meringue powder than with a regular buttercream frosting, but as a cookie decorating it worked perfectly. I would not recommend frosting a cake with it, though. Buttercream works better for that.

[kittylouiselle]

I love this video thanks for the tips and I can’t wait to get going on my new projects💜

[jennynovo]

Just to let anyone know the powdered sugar is sifted

[chandyscreations]

Two questions:
At what point in the process can I add coloring?
If I make flowers with the icing, do I store them at room temp or should they be refrigerated?

[casadulce]

Very informative! Thank you for the great tutorial!☺️

[ellejaysmith]

Thanks for the explanation of meringue powder. Good video. 👍

[AudreyRusso]

Great video...answers a lot of questions...Thank you!

[yummycakes]

Hello I have done wilton full course since then I was not fan of royal icing
Today watching your YouTube royal icing video feel I should try making and make myself fan 😊 so thank you very much you have explain very well/nicely too 😊
One Favor can you tell me dose gum paste have long self life as meringue powder ?? Thank you

[francisjoy]

I really love this, thank you very much

[sweetladynedavis]

Can you guys do a video on how to use your bottle royal icing