Sugar Free Royal Icing
{Originally Posted December 14, 2014}
Most of the time following Trim Healthy Mama you will find creamy frosting recipes for all your cookies and cakes. I enjoy making Coconut Flour Rolled Sugar Cookies for my grandson and decorating them with this Sugar Free Royal Icing.
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I used to use a traditional Royal icing when my kids were young, and have taken multiple cookie and cake decorating classes so that we could do all the fun stuff with cakes, cookies and candy.
How To Use This Sugar Free Royal Icing
This Sugar Free Royal Icing is best when it has been thinned so that it flows over the cookies and hardens into a glaze. It also makes wonderful sprinkles to decorate your cupcakes and cookies.
Tips For Thinning Your Icing
I prefer to use water to thin my icing because it does not add any calories . When I start to thin my icing I use 1/2 teaspoons of water because it will thin out rather quickly.
Tips For Coloring and Tinting Your Icing
Some things I have learned while following a Trim Healthy Lifestyle are that many mama’s may opt for off plan food dyes and colors because they are easy to find and more budget friendly. I know I have in the past.
I would encourage you to explore using Superfood powders to color and tint your icings.
While I know that some are much more expensive than store bought processed colorants, they are the healthiest option and you can use them for more than one thing.
Alternatively you can use your icing as white and use the powders to tint additional sweetener or even to make these incredible Superfood Edible Glitters.
This Sugar Free Royal Icing Makes Amazing Sprinkles
One of the things that I made from this recipe for sugar free royal icing are these super cute Superfood Sprinkles That are also a Fuel Pull!!
I Originally Said This Was An S Recipe For THM, But It Is Actually A Fuel Pull
When I originally wrote this post I had labeled this as an S recipe. However after review by THM Admins (aren’t they great !!) It was brought to my attention that this is a fuel pull recipe.
My original thoughts were that this icing would be used to decorate S style desserts and cookies which is why I had it labeled that way.
Sugar Free Royal Icing {THM FP, Low Carb}
- 1 cup Pyure all purpose stevia sweetener (ground and sifted), you can also use THM Gentle Sweet
- 1 tbs + 1 tsp egg whites (pasteurized)
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- Using an electric mixer on low, combine confectioners' sweetener, sifted, egg whites, and cream of tartar; beat on high until icing is whipped and opaque, about 2 minutes.
- Thin with water as needed to make a stiff but spreadable icing.
You need to powder the sweetener in a coffee grinder or blender for it to be a smooth icing texture
Personally, I like to use erythritol to make this icing as it is not quite as sweet as regular sugar and doesn’t have an after taste.
I don’t typically use xylitol in my home (we have 2 dogs) but because it is a 1:1 conversion with sugar it could also be used without a funky after taste, however please be aware that Xylitol is extremely toxic to household pets.
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