Royal icing is the go-to stuff for picture-perfect sugar cookies, because it makes a neat, hard and glossy finish that professional bakers and home chefs love. This icing is rich and thick and may ...

Royal icing sounds intimidating, but it's easy to make with simple ingredients. If you have a stand mixer, the whisk attachment does all the work. There is no meringue powder in this recipe; egg ...

Ree Drummond’s royal icing is a must-have when it comes to holiday baking. The celebrity chef uses it to decorate everything from Pioneer Woman gingerbread cookies to classic sugar cookies. Best of ...

Kat Lieu is the author of 108 Asian Cookies and the founder of Subtle Asian Baking. Through the decades, royal icing has been the edible glue of choice when it comes to building gingerbread houses.

This is the traditional icing for glazing cookies, piping decorations, or assembling the walls of a gingerbread house. It's light and fluffy; the more you beat it, the stiffer it becomes. For a ...

I used to think my kitchen was cursed. Every time I made royal icing, something went wrong – cracked cookies, bleeding colors, or icing that never quite set right. After ruining countless batches (and ...

For many of us, gingerbread houses are as much a part of Christmas as decorated trees and candy canes. Whereas some people vary the traditional ski chalet or wood cabin by turning their gingerbread ...

Baking is a fun activity that takes skill but produces tasty treats. There are two types of icing that are often used: Royal and regular and they are different.