{"id":2890,"slug":"royal-icing","title":"Royal Icing","description":"Royal icing is a type of icing that dries to a hard sheen.","ingredients_raw":["2 large egg whites","⅛ teaspoon cream of tartar","2 ½ cups (300 g / 11 oz) confectioners' sugar","Liquid or paste food coloring"],"ingredients_norm":["egg white","cream of tartar","confectioners' sugar","liquid or paste food coloring"],"steps":["In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites on low for about 1 minute until they become loose.","Add the cream of tartar and continue mixing on low until the whites become frothy, about 2 minutes.","Gradually add the confectioners' sugar with the mixer on low.","Continue to mix until the icing holds a stiff peak and is dull in appearance, about 2 minutes. The icing is ready to use for piping lines."],"categories":["Frosting and icing recipes","Inexpensive recipes","Recipes for frosting and icing","Vegetarian recipes","Recipes using egg white","Gluten-free recipes","Recipes using powdered sugar","Recipes using cream of tartar","Recipes using food coloring"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":10,"servings":null,"yield_text":"About 1 cup","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Royal_Icing","source_ref":"4525542","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Royal_Icing&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"7fcb88c20de0dbb3c2ce78d47f0c04cc885d16f0984238b38e57b37a27ece532","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:18Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:18Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/royal-icing"}