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royal icing

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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

The egg white not only creates the glossy sheen that royal icing is known for, but it also helps give the icing body so that it can stiffen up.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2022

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

Turn them out of the pans bottom side up, and frost the bottom and sides with royal icing while they are still warm.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary

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