Basic Glace Icing recipe

Basic Glace Icing recipe with step by step pictures and instructions. Learn how to make simple, glossy and easy glace icing. It is simplest icing recipe where sugar is mixed with water and it can be used to decorate cakes, cup cakes, donuts or cookies. It comes as rescue when you don’t have whipping cream or butter and less time to prepare anything. I have used it many times to decorate my cakes. I made this to decorate cup cakes which I made for cake sale in my daughter school. It can also be used as edible glue to stick fondants. Though it is very simple recipe, I want to have it as separate post since it will be used in many recipes.
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Learn how to make simple and easy glace icing.
5 minPrep Time
5 minTotal Time

Ingredients
- Powdered Sugar/Icing Sugar 1/2 cup
- Warm water 1 tbsp
Instructions
- Take powdered sugar in a bowl.
- Add warm water little by little and mix without any lumps to form a thick paste
- Glace Icing is ready.
Notes
Adjust the consistency by adding more water or sugar if the mixture is too thick or too thin.
Apply it on cakes immediately as it will set if you leave for sometime.
Add any food color and make glace icing colorful.
You can add cocoa powder and make chocolate glace icing
How to make Glace Icing with step by step pictures
Take powdered sugar in a bowl.
Add warm water little by little and mix without any lumps to form a thick paste
Glace Icing is ready.