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Today i'm going to be teaching you how to make royal icing
with meringue powder. This recipe is super simple and easy.
Let's get going! Alright so here's what you're going to need:
A mixer of some sort with a whisk attachment.
You're going to need to measure out four cups of powdered sugar.
Sift it if you want it to be nice and smooth, then you won't get any little
clumps when you're trying to pipe or whatever you're using it for.
You're going to need three tablespoons of meringue powder.
I'll link that down below if you want to order it.
And you're going to need around eight tablespoons of water.
But we're going to be adding them one at a time just to get the consistency right.
So, let's get mixing! First go ahead and add your powdered
sugar and meringue powder.
And give that a quick mix together.
And then just go ahead and turn your mixer on low,
and you'll begin adding your water one tablespoon at a time.
Ok, so I've added five tablespoons and you can see the mixture is kind of
coming together at this point. You're going to keep it on low
and as we add the last bit of water we're going to keep an eye on it to make
sure it doesn't get too runny.
Alright, this is what it looks like with six tablespoons water
and it holds together but it's still runny, so we might stop here on water,
and just start mixing it at a higher speed to get it
nice and fluffy. And it'll get stiffer when we mix it.
And then we'll see how it goes. Before I
start mixing i'm going to quickly wipe down the bowl.
Ok, so I'm going to start mixing it at probably about four,
which is uh like medium speed.
I'm just stopping it to check it, it's starting to get smoother.
You can see it's flowing. So this is pretty runny to start, and I'm
making this for piping, so i'm going to stop with water. So this
is six tablespoons of water, but like I said now
we're going to keep mixing it for a few minutes until it gets to stiff peaks.
This is what it's looking like after about two minutes of whipping,
and it's pretty stiff I'm gonna mix it a little longer though because
it still has a bit of a bend. I want it to be nice and firm
so when I pipe it it'll hold its shape.
I'm just going to wipe down the bowl for our last whip. It's almost done.
You can see it's getting a lot thicker, firmer.
Alright, so here's what it's looking like after about five full minutes of
whipping, and to me this is stiff enough to pipe and it'll hold its shape.
So this is ready. Alright so here is what the icing looks like. Nice and
firm. It holds its shape when I pipe it. It
will hold its shape. And whenever I make royal icing I always
whip it to stiff peaks first, and then if I need to adjust it later
for a different use, like for a drip cake or flooding cookies or something, I'll
adjust it after I whip it to stiff peaks. This makes sure it's nice and strong and
then you can change it after that. At least that's
what I do and it works really well. And there will be more videos to come on
some of those other techniques, like using royal icing for a drip cake and
flooding cookies. Here's what this royal icing looks like
piped, just to give you an idea of the consistency of it.
I almost forgot to mention that, you might not know, royal icing
dries out really quickly, so I usually wet a
thin rag and lay it over the bowl while I'm working with it.
Otherwise, you can put it in a tupperware and seal it.
If it sits for too long it might lose its structure,
so re-whipping is always a good idea if it has been sitting
out for a while. So there's just a tip for you
to keep your royal icing fresh. Well, there you guys go I hope this
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