Water Glaze - Glaze to Cover Sweets

If you, like me, have prepared some simple dry biscuits but you are not entirely satisfied with the result because you consider them too trivial, I can suggest you an "idea! You can transform your sweets from simple biscuits (in this case) to small colorful creations and How elegant? Simple: covering them with a water-based glaze, which is prepared in the blink of an eye.

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Identity Card of the Recipe

• 299 KCal Calories per serving

• Ingrediants

  • 50 g of powdered sugar
  • A few drops of red dye or blue dye
  • 1 tablespoon (about 10 ml) of water

  Materials Needed

  • Balance scale
  • Bowl
  • Teaspoon

  Preparation

  1. To make the water glaze, carefully sift the icing sugar into a bowl.
  2. Add the water (10 ml or 1 tablespoon is the correct dose for 50 g of powdered sugar) and the dye in gel, powder or liquid.

  Attention
  If you choose a liquid dye, it is recommended to reduce the amount of water to avoid forming a too fluid compound.

  3. Stir with a spoon and adjust the consistency if necessary. If the glaze is too liquid, add more icing sugar. Conversely, if it is excessively firm and compact, pour a few more drops of water.

  The right idea
  To make some edible writings, the ideal is to use royal icing (prepared with powdered sugar, egg white, coloring and lemon / orange juice). dense: then pour the icing into a pastry bag and decorate the sweets as you like.

  4. The water-based icing is ready to cover sweets such as muffins, biscuits or cakes. It can be kept in the fridge for 5-7 days, tightly closed with cling film.

  Alice's comment - PersonalCooker

  Of course I have shown you how to cover some biscuits with water icing, but you can use the same recipe to cover cream puffs, muffins or even whole cakes. In short, an easy, quick and tasteful recipe!

  Nutritional values ​​and Health Comment on the recipe

  The Water Glaze - Glaze to Cover Sweets - is a sugary pastry base to be associated with other ingredients, which is why it does not have an advisable medium portion.