What sets royal icing apart from other frostings and glazes ... To decorate, place icing in a pastry bag and pipe onto cooled cookies. For border decorations and dots, use a #3 round pastry ...

Five simple steps for how to cover your cake in marzipan and royal icing ... or you want a really hard smooth set on the icing so you can pipe decorative finishes over the top) and then you ...

The royal icing can be made up to three days ahead of ... I add a portion of the icing to a piping bag and pipe a small border around the edges of each cookie. I also save some thicker icing ...