Royal Icing Recipe
Recipe for Royal Icing
Dog Treat Icing Recipe
For Dog Homemade Dog Treats
This easy royal icing recipe can be used for dog treats or people cookies. The recipe for royal icing takes only a few minutes, but you have to work quickly, as it hardens fast. When you make homemade royal icing from scratch, the main ingredients is sugar. I never found a recipe that used anything else to substitute for the sugar. That having been said, you can still use this for some dog treats—just don’t overdo it! Alternatively, you can buy a
royal icing mix
made just for dogs, that is sugar-free and fat-free and includes healthy yogurt.
Dog cookies can be decorated with just a touch
of color, using royal icing.
Purchase a royal icing mix for dog treats here.
Recipe for Royal Icing
How to Make Royal Icing
To make the royal icing, beat the ingredients with your mixer until they form a stiff peak. Use the icing immediately—and I do mean immediately—as it hardens VERY fast! Also, don’t increase the amount of the recipe. Keep it small or you’ll end up throwing some of the icing away because it got too hard! Here are the ingredients for Royal Icing - 1 1/2 teaspoons meringue powder (available at Wal-Mart, the Crafts/Cake Decorating Department or some Ben Franklin & Michaels Crafts stores)
- 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
- 3/4 tablespoon warm water
Royal icing can be colored easily, by adding food color or food color gel when you mix the ingredients..
Tips for Using Royal Icing
On Dog TreatsGetting royal icing to stick to dog treats can be a bit tricky. If you spread the dog treat icing on a smooth treat, it has a tendency to fall off later. And, dog treats made with royal icing on smooth dog treats, don’t ship well and they don’t pack well.However, it isn’t too difficult to solve this problem. Simply use a recipe that gives you a rough surface when the dog treats have been baked, or prick the dog treats with a sharp object like a fork or ice pick—to make little holes that will help hold the royal icing in place. Using dog treat icing is a fun and easy way to really "dress up" your homemade dog treats! And, because of its hardening and keeping qualities, royal icing can be a great choice for decorating homemade dog treats. While the home made royal icing recipe is mostly sugar, you can now buy a
royal icing mix
that contains no sugar and no fat--it was created just for dog treats. And making royal icing from the mix is so much easier!
Have a dog treat bakery?
You'll want the bigger size of royal icing mix.
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