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This is the best royal icing for sugar cookies! It is easy to make, has amazing flavor and dries softer than other royal icings. I'm always getting compliments whenever I use this recipe to decorate my sugar cookies!

That colorful coating might look pretty on your Christmas cookies, but royal icing can be, well, a royal pain. Here are the most common frosting faux pas—and how to avoid them.

Royal Icing can turn regular sugar cookies into little works of art! Smooth and shiny, royal icing and flood icing is actually simple to make and decorate with too. Royal icing is a mixture of powdered sugar, meringue powder and water. Once you’ve outlined your cookies with your royal icing outline, you’ll fill in your designs with “flood” icing. Flood icing is basically just a watered-down royal icing. This smooth royal icing recipe is perfect for decorating cut-out cookies.

This is the only royal icing recipe you'll ever need! With no meringue powder needed, my secret ingredient makes this icing harden perfectly. Plus, I'm sharing my expert tips on adjusting your icing to the perfect consistency, coloring, and storing your icing.

This is my all time favorite royal icing recipe! This recipe uses 2 lbs of confectioners sugar but you mix in 1lb at a time. If you buy a 2lb bag just eyeball half the bag. This recipe also doubles quite nicely.

Skip royal icing and try this easy icing for decorating cookies. Ready in minutes, this simple powdered sugar icing will turn your plain sugar cookies into festive treats! It's perfect for drizzling over cakes and pastries too!

This easy glace icing recipe is great for cookie decorating. It's vegan and made with no dairy and no egg whites. It also tastes great and dries hard.

Trying to learn to make royal icing? Look no further! This is the best (and easiest) royal icing recipe there is!

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Make a delicious frosting that hardens with this easy royal icing recipe! It's perfect for decorating classic sugar cookies with.