Glacé icing
A simple, practical icing made with minimal ingredients and easy to adjust to your preferred consistency.
Ingredients
icing sugar (sifted)
200 g / 7 oz / 1 1/4 cups
liquid (juice of 1 large lemon OR 55 ml boiling water)
gel food colouring (of your choice)
Instructions
1
Mixing
Put the sifted icing sugar in a bowl. Add the liquid slowly, a little at a time, and stir until smooth. Stop adding liquid when you like the look of the consistency. It should be a smidgen thicker than double (whipping) cream.
2
Colouring
Add a tiny amount of colour – use a cocktail stick (toothpick) dipped into the colour. You can always add more if you want, but there is no way to undo a lurid amount of colour without making a super-huge batch of icing.
