Royal Icing Recipe For Jamaican Black Cake
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Royal icing recipe for jamaican black cake. My black cake recipe isn t as dark as some. Here is a simple jamaican royal cake icing recipe. Mix until the icing is white and shiny and the spoon stands in without falling.
Cup icing sugar. 2 large egg whites. Humidity will greatly effect this icing.
Cool for about 2 hours and sprinkle with rum again. Yields less volume than royal icing made with meringue powder. Royal icing is a hard drying icing.
Put half of the sugar into a large bowl. Use an electric mixer on medium speed to whip the egg whites with the icing. The recipe and directions follow.
Cover cakes and allow to cool overnight at least 8 hours before icing or serving. What makes a black cake dark is how much browning you use and how long you soak the fruit in liquor. May 8 2013 some folks may question what place royal icing has on a caribbean food blog.
Sift the icing sugar twice. I associate black cake with traditional jamaican wedding cake but for many it s the cake they bake at christmastime. Report a mistake in the recipe text.