icing without glycerin?

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Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on January 7, 2013 at 7:02am

Laura - I can only imagine this is what we would call royal icing over here.  It's just icing sugar (confectioner's I think you call it), made with lemon juice and water.  The glycerine is added to keep it a bit softer, but without, it will dry like a rock - at least it will over here (UK!).

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Permalink Reply by Laura Ramirez on January 7, 2013 at 2:17pm

Thanks Katy I know what you are talking about royal icing, you are correct it gets very hard, but I read on a magazine that this icing without glycerine is for icing a cake.

Katy Nott said:

Laura - I can only imagine this is what we would call royal icing over here.  It's just icing sugar (confectioner's I think you call it), made with lemon juice and water.  The glycerine is added to keep it a bit softer, but without, it will dry like a rock - at least it will over here (UK!).

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Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on January 7, 2013 at 2:36pm

Yes, that's right.  My Mum used to use it for tiered wedding cakes, way back when (some 40 years or so ago).  She would always get a really smooth finish with it and intricate decorations, because it was so hard.  you had to suck it to eat it though!

btw, I forgot to mention egg whites in the ingredients before, but I guess you already know that!

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