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Now, there are lots of schools of thought when it comes to cookie icings

I am going to show you three popular cookie icing recipes

I have used them and some are my favorites.

These are my go-to recipes as they are easy to make and I get great results

Other decorators have their stand by recipes

I would love for you to see which one you like the best

And then comment below of the recipes you use or like

So, let's get started and show you the recipes

I actually use all three of these recipes for cookies

It depends on what I am going to decorate

If I want a real glossy look, I will go with the corn syrup recipe.

If I want a dryer, matte look, I will use the meringue recipe

Especially if I want the royal icing to dry really fast

If I want a semi-gloss look but want it to dry fast, I will use the egg white royal icing recipe

All the recipes start with one cup of powdered sugar.

With the glossy recipe, add 2 teaspoons corn syrup

and two teaspoons of milk

If you using an extract, add 1/2 teaspoon of clear extract

If adding a color, just add a drop as it will absorb the color really well.

Powdered sugar is just refined sugar with some corn starch

When it hits liquid it is like a sponge and absorbs fast

To make the hardened quick dry royal icing you need meringue powder

1 Tablespoon of meringue powder,

1 and 1/2 Tablespoon of water

and mix it. adding 1/2 teaspoon of extract if needed

And with the egg white method, add one egg white

This will give it a glossy look too, but harden quicker than the corn syrup recipe

Then add 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar and then extract if needed

When ready to add color, just add and stir

You get to pick the consistency you want

If you are flooding a cookie, you don't want the icing to be too thick

But if you are doing detail work, you may want to add more powdered sugar

Just make a well with the powdered sugar and add the ingredients.

For thicker icing, just add more sugar

I am going to decorate three cookies and let them sit and I'll wait thill they are dry

This way you can see the difference in the three cookie icings

As you can see I have mixed all three recipes

This is the one with the egg white.

I did have to add more powdered sugar

as the egg white was more than usual

It is now the right consistency that I like

This is our recipe using meringue powder

They all look alike now, but wait till you see how they dry

And then this is the one with the corn syrup and milk

The look alike and I have the consistency I want too

I am adding a drop of electric green to each one

It will make a pretty green color for our Christmas Treres

I am going to decorate each cookie

and then let it dry

and we will see if we can tell the difference

Oh, I did want to say that the glossy recipe does take longer to dry

The one with the meringue powder dries fast

So if you are in a rush, use the meringue recipe

You just won't get a glossy look

Oh, I love that color

It will be pretty for the Christmas Trees

So, as you can see the three trees are iced

The glossy, the meringue royal icing one and...

and this is with the egg whites

As you can see I covered by bowls so the icing wouldn't harden

The icing will dry up quickly if not covered

If I touch the meringue cookie, it is already hard after 20 minutues.

The one with the egg whites is almost dry

And the one with corn syrup is still soft

They will all dry hard, but ones goes al ittle quicker

I don't know if you can see, but this one has a glossier look

This one has more of a matte look

And this one is more of a semi-gloss

It depends one what you want

The nice thing is you have variety

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