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Water Icing

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Cooking time

Prep: 5 minutes Cook:

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Enough for 12 cupcakes

A quick and simple icing that is great if you want a thin layer of icing that's easy to apply to your cakes, this type of icing is also good for lemon drizzle cake but instead of water you use lemon juice!

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Ingredients

  • 125g Icing sugar
  • 15ml warm water

Method

  1. Heat up the water until warm, not hot.

  2. Put the icing sugar into a small or medium bowl and add water.

  3. Mix together until the icing becomes thick enough to coat with a back of a spoon.

  4. If necessary, add more water (a drop at a time) until it is thick/ thin enough to use.

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