Put the egg whites in a bowl and add the icing sugar bit by bit stirring until you get a thick dropping consistency. Use a whisk to beat the mixture until it starts to form peaks then stir in the glycerine.

To make the icing lightly whisk the egg whites adding the sugar at intervals.

How to ice a christmas cake with royal icing. Add lemon juice and glycerine. Beat well until the icing. More on this recipe from Amanda Grant and others in our free Co-operative Food digital magazine h.

Cover the cake with a clean tea towel and then leave in a cool place for at least one day. The cake should last for 5 weeks like this but bear in mind that as the icing. To ice your Christmas cake with royal icing Wait for the marzipan to dry on the cake for at least 24 hours.

Make a well in the centre and add egg whites. To shop for you. Apply the Royal Icing Make the royal icing recipe and then spread it over the marzipan-covered cake with a flat palette knife in either a smooth layer or swirled to make little peaks all over the surface of the cake.

Eleni Tzirki from the Waitrose Cookery School shows you how to apply layers of marzipan and icing to beautifully finish a festive fruit cake. To shop for your. Eleni Tzirki from the Waitrose Cookery School shows you how to decorate your Christmas cake with royal icing to create an attractive finish.

Decorate as you wish with silver or gold sugar balls Christmas ornaments or. You can use the ready to roll icing and roll it thickly so that it gives a smooth-ish finish to the cake. Make the royal icing.

Place the cake on a cake board and using a pastry brush brush with apricot jam 2 Sprinkle a little icing sugar on the work surface and roll the marzipan out to a thickness of about 1cm. The icing seems to have quite a long shelf life particularly once it is fully dried regardless of which type of egg white is used. Cute Idea For Icing A Holiday Cake O Xmas Christmas Recipe Traditional Christmas Cakes Part One Janehuntley Christmas Fruit Cake With Royal Icing Decorations Cakesdecor.

Keep turning it as you roll to keep an even shape. The type of icing used for Snowscapes peaked icing on Christmas cakes is called Royal icing and is made with egg whites lemon juice and icing sugar confectioners sugar. Beat until smooth and glossy.

This is a simple but pretty way to ice your Christmas cake. Pass the icing sugar through a fine sieve into a large bowl. The layer of marzipan on a cake partly serves to give a smooth surface on to which to ice the cake.

Mix in a little sugar from the side of the bowl. Roll out into a rough square on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar again turning the icing as you roll 12 Roll out to a thickness of about 4mm then wrap around the rolling pin and roll over the top of the cake smooth the surface as with the marzipan 13. If you like stir in a tiny drop of blue food colouring see The inside track below.

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