Royal icing

As long as everyone’s cake has at least an inch of marzipan on them, they don’t seem to worry about the icing

They do love their marzipan and no I don’t make my own……

My sister used to do it every year and glycerine makes it lovely & soft.

I used to love rock hard royal icing. Not so much these days.

Thanks

I’ve never used glycerine, mainly because I forget, I ice the cake a couple of days before Christmas so the icing is still soft enough to eat without losing a tooth.
I’ve just iced one that I’m taking down to our daughters on Sunday, I’ll warn her about the icing, but she’s young and her teeth are still good! I also think that it will be eaten well before Christmas.

I've never used glycerine, just egg white, sugar and a few drops of lemon juice. It does go quite hard but I can still cut it (roughly!) and it soon dissolves in the mouth!

I think it’s to stop the icing from going rock hard. I suppose it isn’t essential but you might want to mind your teeth!