Royal Icing to make bows
Make your own sugared hair bow ties to complete Minni Mouse Cupcakes.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 64 1x
- Category: Candy
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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- 2 egg whites, at room temperature
- 2 cups sifted icing sugar
- 1–2 teaspoons lemon juice or almond extract (optional)
- pink/red food colouring
Instructions
- In a clean, dry bowl of a stand mixer, whisk egg whites until foamy (about 3 minutes), add lemon juice if using.
- Slowly add icing sugar.
- Raise the speed to medium – high until icing is thick and shiny. This should take about 4 minutes (If you feel the mixture is still too runny at this point you can add more icing sugar to help stiffen it up, just add a little at a time).
- Take out about half a cup of the white royal icing, set aside and cover.
- Now add a few drops of food colouring and mix icing until you reach your desired colouring.
- Add icing to piping bags and pipe bows on parchment paper, making 24 and a few extra for good luck!
- Let air dry for at least an hour or two.
Notes
For easy piping of bows, print out a Mini Mouse bow template from the internet. Place under parchment paper and trace the bows with royal icing.
Royal icing is a bit of trial and error to find the consistency that you like (thick or runny).
Rule of thumb is one egg white to one cup of icing sugar. Remember when the icing is runny the icing will spread out.
Also the icing needs lots of time to air dry (I find leaving it overnight is the best).
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bow tie
- Calories: 13
- Sugar: 3.3g
- Sodium: 1mg
- Fat: 0
- Saturated Fat: 0
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 3.3g
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 0.1g
- Cholesterol: 0
Find it online: https://bakingforfriends.com/mini-mouse-cupcakes/