My Best Royal Icing Recipe

This is my best royal icing recipe. It's easy to make and it tastes great. I use this icing to decorate my cookies, and it always turns out looking beautiful.

With a few tips on how to get the perfect consistency, you’ll definitely enjoy baking and decorating cookies. This delicious and versatile royal icing recipe is just the right recipe you’re looking for!

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Video Breakdown:
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0:00 - My best royal icing recipe
0:41 - Basic ingredients for making the best royal icing
1:03 - Add warm/hot water, meringue powder and 2 tbsp of clear vanilla
3:37 - Add 2lbs of powdered sugar and then start mixing in low speed
4:42 - What’s my secret ingredient?
5:19 - Mix in high speed for around 5 minutes — you don’t want to overmix your icing
6:39 - Check your icing’s consistency using a spatula
7:12 - Why you shouldn’t overmix your royal icing
7:51 - Additional tip: Do not use a whisk attachment!

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[judithsturgis]

Hi, really would like to see inside the bowl while it’s mixing during the process. Watching you watch the goings on is a bit frustrating

[abfamily]

Hey Lauren! Thank you for walking us through this step by step. For instructional videos it might help to have some top down shots to see the consistency better, but the narration is very help too. Thanks again!

[JenniferKarnik]

Notes from video

Royal Icing
Into mixer with beating paddle attachment:

¾ cup Warm/Hot water (hot helps break down meringue powder)
⅓ cup + 1 tablespoon meringue powder (miracle meringue powder; add a little more if using a different brand)
2 tablespoons clear vanilla

Start mixing on low, go until it gets pretty foamy.
Scrape sides & re-mix.

2 lbs powdered sugar (add it all at once - but no lumps)

Start mixing on low, pat sides to help shake it down.
As soon as it starts to come together, stop mixer.

Add 1-2 tablespoons of corn syrup (helps keep it flow and keep icing soft)

Turn the mixer back on, slowly move to high. Mix to stiff peaks. It will really start to fill the bowl, like ¾ of the bowl will be filled and looking fluffy. You don't want to overmix; if you do you cannot move it around in the bowl, it will make the icing dry and crumbly.

[pdattilo]

This is by far the BEST recipe. I've been making RI for years and started out with a meringue-based recipe and thought I was pretty happy with it. Once I began adding corn syrup I just couldn't get the right NOW. Thank you so much for making my cookie decorating A LOT easier. It is easier to get the consistency I want from start to finish. Love all your video's and tutorials! thank you again.

[janhusak]

5:18 p.m. EST. I am new to cookie decorating and absolutely love it. Thank you for your videos. Watching the best royal icing video was so helpful with relating the icing to toothpaste, yogurt and honey. That’s explained it perfectly.
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[kelliwegscheider]

Um.... I love you! I was doing all kinds of stuff wrong! You are so informative and your voice is nice to listen to. Also very easy on the eyes 😊 I love your videos! So glad I found then

[LouKeys-prbz]

Hi Lauren,
Thank you for your tutorial. Could you please tell me which clear vanilla do you use for your Royal Icing?

[roxannekleineibst]

Hi there ! After wanting to make proper iced cookies for 6 months, I finally decided to make a simple Christmas set today. I stayed up till 2am last night watchung your videos. Your icing recipe worked perfectly. I bought a 2nd hand dehydrator about 2 months ago and wow it worked so well to dry my cookies! Thanks for your awesome videos ❤

[PatriciaSenn-cuxf]

Perfect pairings guide please. Thank you

[teresa]

I made this recipe twice and both times my icing would not dry!!! After looking at other recipes I noticed you use a lot more water than everyone else. It took 10 minutes for my icing to fluff up. Then there was more air than icing and it would not dry 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[magalyruiz]

Ms. Lolly can you please share the recipe with spoons and cups measurements, please. Thank you.

[leannekenyoung]

It would be much more helpful if you showed us inside your mixing bowl between additions and so we know what it looks like especially the first part. I thought you weren’t supposed to incorporate a lot of air into Royal icing or it will dry to a crumbled consistency? Sorry I’ve watched a lot of videos and while the recipe is pretty consistent across the board but the techniques I think are where the magic truly happens, I’m glad you mentioned about crumbly icing. It’s easy to see you are an expert and have made a lot of Royal icing in your days. Thank you so much for sharing this!!! I look forward to more of your videos!❤️🥰🙏🏻🍁🇨🇦

[constanceangel]

Hi Lauren my friend loves the taste when I switched to your recipe so now it’s my go to. Great instruction. I do need to know how and when can I add flavor oils for a flavored icing other than vanilla. For example Carmel apple (apple and Carmel oils) please advise soon as you can.
Thank you
Connie

[akshirle]

Thanks for the video. What size mixer are you using?

[ambercockrum]

This is the only recipe I’ve had issues with the icing not drying :( not sure what I did wrong

[theresatym-boldt]

I'm technology challenged and I don't know what link to click to get the free flavor guide? Paring guide? Heck, don't know how I would even know if you did responded? Hope you can help. Plus I would love to see from above the bowl as I might of blended it to long? Mine ended up being on the hard side when stirring the icing?

[MaryValenzuela]

would like to see a little more focus on your mixer, that way we could appreciate The Step by Step more, that's the most important thing, anyway thank you very much for sharing.

[layahal]

May I have the perfect pairings guide please. 😊😊😊

[mh]

It would be so much more helpful if you could point the camera into the bowl so we could see the consistency better.

[Angie]

How much more meringue powder for different brands 🤔