The Best Royal Icing Recipe (no colour bleed, soft bite & puffy icing)

Hi this is Stephanie from Little Cookie. Today we'll be talking about the best royal icing recipe to decorate your sugar cookie. You'll need a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, measuring cup, measuring spoon and spatula, icing sugar, meringue powder, warm water, vanilla and I like to use butter flavouring, corn syrup and white food colouring. You can put the whole bag of powdered sugar in your bowl and then we're going to add three tablespoons of meringue powder. Now we'll put it in the mixer and stir the ingredients with the paddle attachment to mix everything up. And now you'll be adding your warm water. Don't add it all at once, just pour it in slowly as we won't be using it all yet. Add one quarter cup of corn syrup. Don't worry if your icing looks really thick, it will come together soon. And then we're going to add one tablespoon of vanilla. I like to use real vanilla but you can also use clear imitation vanilla. And one tablespoon of butter flavouring. I like to use the Loran's oil. Then we're going to scrape down the sides to make sure everything is mixed in. It's going to be pretty thick at this point but we can always thin it down later. This whole time you'll be mixing on the lowest speed, just incorporate the ingredients. It'll be thick but we'll deal with that later. Next we'll be adding the white food gel colour. I need to add a little bit more because I used real vanilla so it makes my icing a little bit darker. So I want to bring it back to a nice bright white. This is also important because it'll prevent your colours from bleeding together, especially if you're going with a dark colour next to a light colour. Now we're going to turn up the mixer speed to medium high and it'll make the icing nice and fluffy. You don't want to over mix it at this point because then your icing will dry and it'll crumble. Now our icing is ready to go. I hope you liked the video, if you did please subscribe to our channel and if you have any questions or comments let me know below. Thanks for watching!