I have been holding on to this recipe for a year. Actually, I lost it when my hard drive died and was thrilled to see that I had posted it on another site so I was able to get it back. The other site, by the way, is http://hoppobumpo.blogspot.com/2008/12/great-eggless-royal-icing-experiment.html , and has amazingly detailed descriptions of several other egg free royal icing recipes. I made my icing thick. It was strong enough to assemble a gingerbread house and was hard as a rock by the next day. It also tasted good! You can thin it out a little if you want drippy snow-like icing for the roof, but I don't know how long it will take to harden. I wish very much that I had pictures to show, but we don't have any working cameras in the house. If I can get a decent picture with my disposable camera, I will post it later. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
1 c Powdered sugar
1 T Ener-G egg replacer (dry)
1 t Cream of tartar
1/8 t Xanthan gum
2 T Water (approximately)
Blend all dry ingredients together. Add water slowly until desired consistency is reached.
How amazing, I was just thinking yesterday..... "Hmmm wonder if ener-g egg replace would work for royal icing?" ... then today I stumble on your blog. Thanks for sharing.. I'll give it a try!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Thank you! This looks fantastic. I was at a loss as to how to put together a gingerbread house. I'll be trying this for sure this season!
ReplyDeleteI be using this for our gingerbread house. It came with "egg free icing" directions, but I'm not sure it will hold up as well. This sounds MUCH better :)
ReplyDeleteI was struggling with that annoyingly stupid regular egg-white based Royal Icing recipe last night in preparation for my daughter's class activity of making gingerbread houses at school today, and I finally had to give up. My eggs are/were too old to separate properly, and I kept thinking I could probably use Ener-G, but I didn't have the energy myself (har har) to try and find a recipe and attempt it all again. This morning I started searching for a DF GF Chex Mix before I go shopping, and whaddya know? I see a comment about your royal icing recipe. I'm going to send your blog to my cousin who is stuck in a rut from a recent dairy/wheat/egg allergy diagnosis and doesn't want to do any baking - one of her most favourite pastimes. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your posts!!
ReplyDeleteeBear, thank you so much, your comment was a wonderful Christmas present! If you look at my most recent post, you will see that I don't write much on my blog anymore. It makes made me feel really good to be reminded that all the work I did in the past is still here to help people. Best wishes to you and your cousin. I hope she finds the joy in allergy free cooking that I did, the challenge of it all can actually be very exciting! :)
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