Can you make Royal icing with normal icing sugar??

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Been to two supermarkets and neither have any royal icing Is there some magic way to make it with normal icing sugar?

I used normal icing sugar yesterday and it is fine. I used the BBC recipe and didn't use glycerine as I had to send it in the post and wanted a harder set. I used three large egg whites and about 650 g icing sugar and about a tablespoon of lemon juice.

Yes - it’s egg whites, icing sugar, squeeze of lemon juice. You can use glycerine to stop it setting like rock, but I like the rock effect. www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/royal-icing

I thought it was made using normal icing sugar .

Yes I have made loads the last couple of weeks! 500g sifted icing sugar, 100g egg whites (approx 3 large egg whites) and 1/4 tsp cream of tartar.

Oh amazing, thank you! I'm using it to decorate a gingerbread house, would you say it needs to be rock hard or not?

If you are gluing house together I would go with hard - for the decorating it doesn't really matter, hard would be fine

It still needs to be pipeable even if using to glue it together, so not excessively tough. You should be able to make icicles from it.

Rock hard really is rock hard, teeth breakingly so if you are not careful. I would use it like that for the 'glue' but I would add a little glycerine for the decoration.

The recipe I posted above has been used as glue for gingerbread house as well as piping decoration. Flavour with a little vanilla and you can thin for decorating with a few drops of water but I found it was perfect consistency already

For my first ever piping attempt I don't think I did too bad!

DD added characters

I made it from icing sugar, egg whites, and cream of tartar (although you can sub the latter for lemon juice if you can’t find it). I was really nervous as it was a first attempt, but it was actually quite easy.

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This is the recipe I used from Pinterest.

Ooh I was hoping this would be pictures of your masterpiece, nice one! I like the character additions.

That is fab op!

Thank you! I did the piping and DD stuck the sweets on

DH came towards it with his arm outstretched and I had to slap his hand away