Description
This is absolutely the best icing I have ever made.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice, or as needed
- 4 cups white sugar
- 2 cups egg whites
- 5 cups unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
- ΒΌ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Wipe the bowl of an electric stand mixer and the whisk attachment with lemon juice to remove any trace of grease. Add sugar and egg whites to the bowl.
- Whisk sugar and egg whites together in the bowl of the stand mixer over simmering water
- whisking constantly but gently
- until temperature reaches 140 degrees F (60 degrees C)
- about 10 minutes. Return bowl to the stand mixer.
- Whisk sugar-egg white mixture in the stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment until mixture is thick
- glossy
- and temperature of outside of bowl is room temperature. Change attachment to the paddle attachment and continue mixing on low speed. Add butter
- 1 cube at a time; mix until silky-smooth. If mixture curdles
- continue mixing and it will return to smooth.
- Pour vanilla extract and sprinkle salt into butter-sugar mixture; beat until fully incorporated.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 30 mins
Servings: 80