Fit another piping bag with 5mm in nozzle for flooding and fill with the runnier flooding icing.
Piping icing for biscuits.
Sift the icing sugar into a large bowl and add the egg whites.
Every icing job begins with a smooth layer of base icing.
5 once you have completed the circuit and lined the edge you can draw your central lines across the middle.
Pipe around edges of biscuit in a thin line make sure line is solid with no breaks.
For piping biscuits i use a large open star nozzle specifically an ateco 828 open star pastry nozzle.
First is an icing nozzle.
The recipe got too lengthy so i decided to split it into two and also this is an all purpose icing recipe that is ideal to use for any cookies and biscuits not just for the christmas cookies.
For enough icing to cover about 50 medium sized biscuits you will need.
If icing is too thick add more golden syrup.
Ingredients for the icing.
This is the icing recipe for the christmas cookies i just shared.
The second thing you need is an.
500g icing sugar 2 egg whites 1 tsp lemon juice.
In a small bowl stir together icing sugar and milk until smooth.
Once that s done it s time to whip up the royal icing which sounds fancy but is really very simple.
These are sometimes called tubes tips or pipes and there are hundreds to choose from.
If the surface of the icing isn t flat gently shake the biscuit back and forth until you have a smooth covering.
Use to decorate biscuits or cookies.
First around the entire edging of the biscuit staying millimetres into the biscuit.
4 start piping lightly and let the icing land on the biscuit now draw your outline.
1 3 cup icing sugar.
Use a toothpick to spread the icing evenly inside the hard icing wall.
It s worth buying fairly decent quality so that the tubes don t bend when you use them.
Place a chilled cake on a platter or cardboard cake round and transfer it to a rotating cake stand.
Dip biscuits in the icing or paint them with a brush.
Smooth on a base layer of slightly chilled buttercream with a straight icing spatula to seal the cake crumbs.
Pipe enough runnier icing to cover the entire biscuit don t worry about it being neat at this point.
1 egg at room temperature lightly beaten.
Bake in a pre heated oven of 180 c for 8 10 mins until golden brown edges and pale coloured centre in colour using a double pan method.
1 teaspoon vanilla essence.
1 3 cup caster sugar.
1 cups plain flour.
Chill the cake until icing has hardened about 15 minutes.
Beat in syrup and almond or vanilla extract until icing is smooth and glossy.
6 wait 10 minutes for the icing to dry.