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royal icing

noun

  1. a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Instead, our background viewing during December has become an almost “Nutcracker”-like whirlwind of on-screen bakers dashing around their competitors with gingerbread pieces and a plump pastry bag of royal icing, a kaleidoscopic array of sprinkles, nonpareils and tiny decorative candies at their disposal.

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Oriental string work is similar with its use of fine strings piped with royal icing, but in this case, the strings are dropped to create a curve.

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Both rely entirely on royal icing, a multiuse mixture of confectioners' sugar and egg whites, plus an acid stabilizer that is firm upon piping and dries very hard.

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It involves delicate piping of royal icing, through a very small piping tip, built up upon itself to reach breathtaking gravity-defying heights.

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A cake decorator from Australia was in the U.K. learning from masters of overpiping — the technique of building up layers and layers of piped royal icing to create incredible sugar masterpieces.

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