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Glacé Icing Recipes

By Recipes4us

Basic glacé icing recipe plus variations and flavoured glace icing recipes

This icing recipe is sufficient to cover 10-12 cupcakes or fairy cakes, 24 small biscuits (cookies) or the top of a 20cm/8-inch cake. If you wish to use the glace icing for piping, such as on gingerbread men or biscuits, add a little more icing sugar to give a slightly thicker consistency.

Ingredients for basic Glace Icing

100g/4oz Icing (confectioners) Sugar - sieved
Approx 30ml/2 tbsp Water

Instructions

1. Place the sieved icing sugar in a mixing bowl, add the water and any flavouring or colouring and beat until smooth and thick enough to thickly coat the back of a spoon.

End of instructions

If you find the mixture is too thin, add more sieved icing sugar. If it's too thick add more water a few drops at a time as a little liquid goes a long way.

Equipment required to make this Recipe

	Sieve
	Mixing Bowl
	Spoon

Glace Icing Recipe Variations

Coloured Glace Icing Recipe

Add 2-3 drops of food colouring. Be very careful not to add too much.

Orange Glace Icing Recipe

Replace the water with fresh Orange Juice or undiluted Orange squash

Lemon Glace Icing Recipe

Replace the water with fresh Lemon Juice

Chocolate Glace Icing Recipe

Sift 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder in with the icing sugar before adding the water

Coffee Glace Icing Recipe

Substitute the water with strong black coffee

Vanilla Glace Icing Recipe

Add a few drops of Vanilla Extract

Almond Glace Icing Recipe

Add a few drops of Almond Essence

Rum Glace Icing Recipe

Substitute the water with Rum

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Additional information

Main Ingredients

: Icing Sugar:

: Water:

: Food Colouring:

: Food Flavourings:

Tips, Options and Substitutions

	Use a good sized mixing bowl as icing sugar is very light and tends to fly off when mixing
	Only make up the icing once the cakes/biscuits have completely cooled

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