Edible Spiders
These are very fragile, but enough stayed intact to give the desired effect...I used a deocrating tube to pipe the icing into spider shapes on waxed paper. They are made from Royal Icing, which needs to be used right away since it hardens to a rocklike texture very quickly!
Royal Icing 16 oz powdered sugar (icing sugar) 3 egg whites 1/2 tsp cream of tartar Beat until peaks firmly hold their shape, and the more you beat it, the firmer it gets.
I only made a third of this recipe and I still had tons of icing left over after making two dozen spiders. I used black paste food coloring to get it as dark as I could...
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