Chocolate Royal Icing

Cathleen Colbert's Note:

I tried to make brown royal icing to decorate bear shaped cookies. But even with good quality food color paste, I couldn't get it dark enough. This was the answer.

• Total Time: 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 4 cups

• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 7 tablespoons warm water
• 3 tablespoons powdered egg whites (meringue powder)

Directions:

1. Mix powdered sugar, cocoa and egg whites.
2. Add water slowly until the icing is the consistency of thick frosting for outlining and thin with more water to fill.

Reviews

[Jen R.]

Thank you for sharing! I needed a brown royal icing for my acorn cookies and this worked perfect. The original recipe worked creat for the color of the body of the acorn, then I added a bit of black gel food coloring to deepen the color for the cap. Great tastin also!!

[Chef #311645]

This was the perfect frosting. I've never made chocolate royal icing. It was delicious! It hardened perfectly on my sugar cookies. I will definitely make this frosting again!

[I*Needa*Chef]

Thanks so much for posting this recipe! I was having a really hard time achieving true black that wasn't bitter with my regular royal icing recipe. This worked like a charm! And tasted great too :)