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royal icing

British  

noun

  1. a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This is a recipe for royal icing to decorate cutout sugar cookies.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2022

Like the liquid-based variety, you can flavor royal icing with any extract.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2022

If you decorate with royal icing, know that it tends to set fast so work as quickly as you can while still paying careful attention to precision.

From Salon Dec. 19, 2021

The warmth from the cookies will cause the royal icing to melt, cause colored sprinkles to bleed a rainbow of red and green, and make it impossible to create the Pinterest designs of your dreams.

From Salon Dec. 19, 2021

Bake in layer tins; spread the layers with orange filling and frost the top with royal icing flavored with orange-juice and a little lemon.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary

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