Homemade Thermo icing to the rescue

Thought I was pretty smart and picked up an after Christmas special on a gingerbread biscuit icing kit. $1 Bargain.  I was set up with the grandkids kids for afternoon craft cooking when I read the instructions. Ingredients needed: icing sugar!! Seems this kit comes with sugar sprinkles, silver balls (missing)  a couple of red and green icing pens, icing flavouring but nothing to glue the bits on.

"Ingredients needed: icing sugar!!"

Luckily Superkylz had a ready supply of raw sugar and with the Basic Cookbook recipe chip inserted into her Thermo  we discovered the icing sugar instructions. 300g of fine icing sugar resulted.

We added the 100g butter and 30g cream. The result a few seconds later  a fine quantity of smooth and vanilla flavoured icing sugar was ready for the piping bag. The older girls were impressed.

As they set about decorating the bells, santas and stockings, Little Ariah contented herself with licking the spatula and demanding top ups. She soon joined in putting red and green dots on her biscuit. Yet again she couldn't resist sampling her biscuit before it was ready.

There was so much icing we raided the fridge for two more cakes to ice and still had about half left for another creation another day. I'd say in the piping bag it would last another week.

Consistency was great, $1 well spent, school lunches taken care of for a few days and Little Ariah no worse for wear after her sugar fix. I'll certainly keep that easy icing recipe on my repertoire. Colouring, chocolate flavouring  etc are a certain option. I love that you can make the icing sugar from raw sugar and whip up the rest from there.

Stay tuned the promised bread recipe is coming.
cheers Robyn