Whether you're looking to create simple cookies or creative designs, I’ve got all the top tips right here to create the best royal icing (for piping and flooding).

Royal icing is the go-to stuff for sugar cookies, because it makes a neat, hard and glossy finish that professional bakers and home chefs love.

Everything You Need to Decorate Christmas Cookies Like a Pro Because sugar cookies look their holiday best with a little royal icing ...

Decorate with royal icing for the best results "Royal icing contains egg white, so it's stretchier and just easier to pipe — plus it will dry completely hard over night. Water icing won't." ...

Use this royal icing recipe for sugar cookies, holiday cookie decorating, gingerbread houses, and cake decorating.

There are just four ingredients in this easy (yet very professional-looking) sugar cookie icing recipe. Make it your go-to royal icing for holiday cookies.