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Royal icing is the key to perfectly decorated cookies. It is also the hardest part to master! This chapter will guide you through the step-by-step process of making royal icing, how to achieve the perfect colors, and the biggest challenge: the consistency! Royal icing dries completely hard, which makes the cookies easy to package without a mess.

This is a standard royal icing recipe using meringue powder. I prefer to use meringue powder as a safety precaution with the volume of cookies I make and decorate. If this is the method you would like to use, I would highly suggest ordering meringue powder from a specialty baking store. Picking up this ingredient from a local craft store may cause some problems and affect the overall taste of the cookies. If you’re not looking to invest in a container of meringue powder just yet, feel free to utilize a traditional royal icing recipe using egg whites. All of the same principles you will learn in later sections will apply exactly the same if you choose to use egg whites; however, you will need to find your own royal icing recipe, since a simple egg white substitution in this recipe will not have the results you expect.