Royal Icing

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 4 large egg whites
• 500 g icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon glycerin

Recipe

• 1 stir the sugar into 3 of the egg whites until you get it falls heavily of the back of a spoon (slopp! is the noise it makes *lol*).
• 2 take a whisk and whisk energetically for about 10 minutes or until you get stiff peaks in the icing.
• 3 add the glycerin (if this is for my christmas cake separate half the mix in a tight lidded jar and store in the fridge).
• 4 add the other egg and beat again.
• 5 ice your cake and leave for 24 hours.
• 6 further instructions for my christmas cake.
• 7 ok.
• 8 use the mix you have to ice the cake make it as flat as possible and then draw a ruler across the top lightly to get it flat (ish).
• 9 do the same with the sides.
• 10 let the icing set for 24 hours.
• 11 after 24 hours take out the other half of the icing from the fridge and spread it thickly around the cake; leaving a 8 cm circle in the middle without icing.
• 12 let this set for a couple of hours and then place a ribbon round the edge, put some edible red berries in the circle and some edible leaf (mint, rosemary, sage, anything).