I am always trying to improve my recipes and my icing for my Empire Biscuits just wasn’t right, so I decided it needed to be a bit harder and went for Royal Icing. Turned out this is much better as it goes hard pretty quick. Good if you want to decorate them.

Makes enough for a 20cm Cake or 12 biscuits.

400g Icing Sugar

2 egg whites or egg white powder

1/2 tsp water

1. Using a whisk, bring the egg whites to a frothy consistency
2. A little at a time spoon in the icing sugar (& yes it WILL go everywhere, this was my kitchen worktop after….lol)   
3. Add the little water and whisk until you get stiff peaks.                                       
4. Now you are ready to use. At this point you can use food colouring and colour to decorate your biscuits of cake.

I made some Scottish Empire Biscuits using my trusty Recipe.