Regal or Royal Icing

kah22

I plan to ice my Christmas cake on Friday. I'm opting for bought marzipan. Icing I'm not to sure

My supermarket only seems to sell Dr Oetker Regal Icing as opposed to Royal Icing. What is the difference.

I appreciate I can make my own Royal Icing but I've lots of other things to be getting on with.

As some of my guests are not Icing fans I only intend to ice the top, really for show. What would readers recommend?

Kevin

CRANKY40

The regal icing is fondant. It's smooth, will dry out when you ice the cake but doesn't go crunchy so stays fairly soft. If you use this don't keep your cake in a plastic box. Royal icing is the traditional method of creating a snow scene so the icing can be used to form peaks. It's crunchier when dry and if you're not artistic it's a good option (says the least artistic person in the universe who has just fondant iced 3 cakes, sigh).

JulieM

Silver Spoon do a Royal Icing Sugar which you only have to add water to, then mix. There is dried egg white in it so you don't have to faff around separating eggs and finding something to do with the yolk. I've used it several times and it's quite acceptable.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Regal icing should be banned.

jackyann

I too dislike bought fondant icing.
I second JulieM's recommendation - I had always made my own royal icing, but bought the packet one when a relative needed to avoid raw egg (the dried egg white in packet icing is pasteurised). So easy and no difference noted, so now it is my standard, and especially useful as I make cakes to fund raise, and I think it safer not to use raw egg.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Four pounds of icing sugar. Four egg whites, you can get the pasteurised ones. Dash of lemon. Brute force in bowl and covers a Christmas cake.

thriftwizard

Look away if you don't want to see festive heresy...

*** Cream cheese icing is rather nice on Christmas cake! ***

There, said it. It's out there in the public domain, for all to see... I don't like marzipan, and I find royal icing horribly sweet. But cream cheese icing's got that tang that compliments the richness of the cake beautifully. So now I have to make & ice two small cakes, a traditionally-iced & decorated one for His Nibs, and a cream cheese one, decorated with glittery flowers, for me! None of the Offspring like rich fruit cake at all, so that'll keep us going for at least a week. Unless the cat sits on one of them, which happened last year...

Rain_Shadow

I hate fondant icing. Royal icing is the way to go,

kah22

I have picked up a packet of the Royal Icing Sugar and after reading all your posts I'm convinced Royal Icing is the way to go. As there are some of my guests who don't like icing I'm only going to ice the top anyway

So Friday is Royal Icing Day! 🤓

Kevin

gt568

thriftwizard wrote: »

Look away if you don't want to see festive heresy...

*** Cream cheese icing is rather nice on Christmas cake! ***

There, said it. It's out there in the public domain, for all to see... I don't like marzipan, and I find royal icing horribly sweet. But cream cheese icing's got that tang that compliments the richness of the cake beautifully. So now I have to make & ice two small cakes, a traditionally-iced & decorated one for His Nibs, and a cream cheese one, decorated with glittery flowers, for me! None of the Offspring like rich fruit cake at all, so that'll keep us going for at least a week. Unless the cat sits on one of them, which happened last year...

Burn the witch!!!!!!:rotfl:

helcat26

Sorry to buck the trend but no-one in my family likes royal icing. It used to be a pig to make- all that beating, then it set like rock and everyone just chipped it off!


Some of the family like fondant so I do a cake with fondant for them, others I just do white marzipan- or nothing for those that eat it with cheese.