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Royal icing

Royal icing is a mixture of egg white and icing sugar. From its pasty consistency when fresh, it dries to give a lovely white crust.

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Last modified on: February 12^th 2012

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For 60 g, you will need:

1 10 ml egg white
2 50 ml icing sugar
3 ¼ teaspoon lemon juice

Change these quantities to make: 40 g 60 g 120 g 240 g 360 g

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How long will it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Start to finish
13 min.	13 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 min.

Put 10 ml egg white and 50 ml icing sugar in a bowl.

Stage 2 - 1 min.

Tip in half the icing sugar.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Mix thoroughly with a whisk.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Add more icing sugar a spoonful at a time, beating well each time.

Continue until you have a smooth paste which leaves a point when you lift the whisk out.

Stage 5

Your royal icing is ready for use, to coat a cake or sweets, like calissons, for example.

Remarks

The proportions of egg white and sugar are fairly approximate. It is important to arrive at the right pasty texture, whatever weight of sugar you are using.

The lemon juice gives a brighter whiteness, but you can colour royal icing with a few drops of food colouring if you prefer.

Keeping

1 or 2 days in the fridge in a sealed container.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
203 Kcal or 850 Kj	1 gr	50 gr	0 gr
8 %	<1 %	4 %	0 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
331 Kcal or 1,386 Kj	1 gr	82 gr	0 gr
12 %	<1 %	6 %	0 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2700 k-calories or 11300 k-joules by day for a man (change to a woman).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Egg

How much will it cost?

For 60 g : 0.20 €

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Some other recipes using this recipe

Calissons

Calissons are a sweet from Provence - Aix-en-Provence is famous for them - made with almonds and candied fruit, covered with royal icing. This is a slightly simplified version, which is every bit as good.
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This recipe uses (among others)

	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pink Reims biscuits, Clementine Chantilly, Diamond biscuits, Millefeuille, Pistachio "Financiers", ... All
	Egg white: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spicy hot toasted cashew nuts, Macaronade mixture, Financier batter, Verrine of avocado mousse and crab, How to beat egg whites, ... All
	Lemon juice: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Nanou's apple and almond cake, Souda salad, Tarte Jurassienne, Home-made doner kebab, Fillets of sole meunière, ... All

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