Royal Icing

Use this recipe to decorate fruit cakes and celebration cakes. This will be enough for top of 20-23 cm (8-9 inch) cake.

Ingredients

• 1 kg (2 lb) icing sugar
• 5 medium egg whites
• 2 x 5 ml spoon (2 tsp) lemon juice for firm icing
  OR
  2 x 5 ml spoon (2 tsp) glycerine may be added to keep icing soft

Method

1. Lightly beat egg whites with glycerine or lemon juice.
2. Sieve icing sugar, add half to egg whites, beat well.
3. Add remainder of sugar gradually stirring well until stiff enough to stand in peaks in the bowl.