Dani's Royal Icing - makes 5 cups
Ingredients
- ½ cup meringue powder
- 2 lbs confectioners sugar
- 1 cup cold water
Cookies
- favorite chocolate cookie recipe, cut into sheep shapes, baked & cooled
Decorations
- food coloring
- dragée candy for eyes
- mini marshmallows for wool
Special Equipment
- hand mixer
- squeeze bottles
- tweezers
- toothpicks
How-to
Prepare Royal Icing
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Using a hand mixer, beat together meringue powder and water
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Slowly beat in sugar, until combined
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Set aside some of the white icing; tint remaining icing with brown food coloring
Decorate Cookies
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Bake and completely cool your favorite chocolate cookies
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Once cookies have cooled, outline the head, feet and tail in brown royal icing. Then fill in the areas by smoothing the icing with a toothpick
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Place a dragée candy eyeball, then let the icing dry for a couple of hours
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After icing has hardened, follow the outline of the cookie with white royal icing, then fill in with icing in a zigzag fashion. Use a toothpick to smooth out the icing and give the cookie a shake to further smooth out the icing
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Place mini marshmallows around the perimeter of the white icing and then fill in with more marshmallows for the wool
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Let dry overnight, then store in an air-tight container or wrap in plastic and tie with a ribbon for a great edible gift!
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