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The cookie that started it.
It started with one iced cookie in a magazine: a Christmas sugar cookie with smooth white icing, something I learned for the first time was called royal icing. The recipe said it flowed smooth, dried firm with a soft shimmer, and showed how to drizzle fine red and green lines on top. It looked beautiful and professional. I was hooked, and I had to make that icing myself.
A labor of love.
It was a learning curve, but it became a labor of love. Every decorating session meant gearing up first. I often wondered why it wasn’t easier to get to the decorating. Over the years, I made a lot of decorated cookies for my children and other children and families. I often wondered why there were no natural color icing options and no convenient way to buy good clean nicely naturally colored ready made icing. I powered through the mixing and coloring, always thinking about how to shortcut the process and make the icing work better, taste better, and be easier and faster. Who has hours in a day to make cookies and icing before they even get to decorate?
The trouble with home made icing.
Cookie decorating with homemade royal icing takes a lot of work before the fun starts. Getting the consistency right is two steps forward, one step back. You don’t think you added enough water, so you add too much. Then you need more powdered sugar, but you’ve already used it all, and the icing ends up too runny, dripping down the sides of the cookie or spreading too thin. Even when you get it right, the taste can be chalky and the dried icing too hard and brittle.
Why I made my own.
Homemade icing has also changed. It used to be made with real egg whites, and now most recipes call for meringue powder. Every one I’ve found contains gums and other unnecessary additives, it costs a lot, and it takes up pantry space when you only use it now and then. We all tried the products in the grocery store decorating aisle, but I couldn’t find a really good, clean, ready-made icing, so I created one. Then I created natural color icings, which we’ve begun launching in a line of 8 colors, so decorators could skip artificial dyes too. Since I found myself making cookies to help introduce the icing products, I created tasty little shelf-stable sugar cookie products and easy-to-copy designs, so I could put together the ultimate shortcut to decorating sugar cookies with a clean, tasty royal icing.
What We Make, and Why We’d Love to Be Your Cookie Decorating Bestie!
Frosting Factory makes ready-to-use royal icing with no preservatives and no artificial anything. It’s self-leveling, dries stackable with a soft bite, and comes ready to stir and use. Our Royal Icing is made with premium versions of traditional ingredients that taste better and perform better. We also make a version without corn syrup, using mostly organic ingredients.
The world is moving away from artificial dyes, so we moved with it. Our Naturals line brings royal icing in colors from natural sources, and it keeps growing.
Woman-Owned, Made in Troy, NY
Frosting Factory is woman-owned and based in Troy, New York. We make our products for home decorators, bakeries, retailers, and food service, and we can’t wait to see what you create.
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