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Nicole Hopper is a recipe tester and developer based in Birmingham, Alabama. If you ever wondered what the secret is to perfectly frosted cut-out sugar cookies, we’ll fill you in: royal icing. This ...

Whether the package you pick up from the grocery store bears the name powdered sugar, confectioners’ sugar, icing sugar, or 10x, the contents inside are all the same type of sugar. This delicate, ...

It’s a universal law that a lovely loaf or bundt cake must be topped with a simple icing drizzle. Although simplicity doesn’t have to mean flavorless, most powdered sugar icings are, sadly, completely ...