Royal Icing

I promised that I would post my go to royal icing recipe. I have used several recipes and this is the best one I have found. A few helpful hints...

 Don't skip sifting the powdered sugar, sifting the powdered sugar gives a smooth texture to the icing. Also note that decorating with royal icing is a process because piping the outline of the cookie with icing must harden before you can flood the cookie with icing, which takes a little bit of time.  I usually pipe all of my cookies first, then go back and flood them with thinner icing.  Royal icing is still one of my favorite ways to decorate sugar cookies.  

Here is also a link to a great sugar cookie recipe.  This cookie holds its shape which is great when you are decorating with royal icing. Enjoy decorating!