Martha demonstrates how to prepare royal icing using fresh eggs, sifted confectioners’ sugar, lemon juice, and food coloring.

Learn the ingredients of royal icing and find out how to use, store and decorate cookies with royal icing. Be it a smooth swathe of bright cheery color across a cute cookie cutout; the piping used to ...

Royal icing is unlike most other icings. It can dry out quickly if you let it, ruining your chance to use it. Don't let that happen with Julia Child's tip.

Every year as the holidays approach, I eagerly anticipate holiday baking and decorating sugar cookies. And every year, they don’t exactly turn out as planned. That’s because decorating cookies is a ...

If you've ever decorated cookies before, like sugar or gingerbread around the holiday season, you've likely used royal icing as a base for all of your colored icings. Royal icing makes decorating ...

This three-ingredient royal icing is a must-have for holiday baking. Margaret Braun is a world-renowned sugar artist and cake designer. Her confectionary work has appeared in the likes of the Museum ...

Ice cookies like a pro with this easy-to-follow recipe and tips from Angie Tucker and Christin Kubasko of Southern Sugar Bakery in Raleigh, North Carolina: The icing (used for the base layer) should ...

Whether you’re looking to create fun confections with the kids, or craft a show-stopping cookie, cake or even gingerbread house, we’ll show you the right steps for making and using fool-proof royal ...