Christmas Cookies Decorating With Royal Icing. You’ll obviously want to start with making those cookies. Royal icing is a sweet, hard, shiny icing that's made from egg whites and confectioners' sugar (also known as powdered sugar).
To completely harden on top of the cookies, the icing needs at least 24 hours to set. Before you pull out the sugar and the decorating tips, check out these links for everything you need to know. This method serves as a great base for all kinds of embellishments.
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For flooding, you’d follow the steps above, adding small amounts of water until a ribbon of the stuff disappears back into the icing within a count of one thousand one, one thousand two. Once you start decorating cookies with royal icing, it gets super addictive! Below you can see the step images of the process of decorating each cookie. Well, after spending the last couple of weeks decorating all kinds of halloween cookies with sugar cookie icing that hardens, i’m here to tell you that it’s not as hard as it looks!