Foam Icing Recipe

Ingredients for Foam Icing

• 1 white of egg
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup water
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Boil sugar and water to 220 degrees F. Dissolve sugar in the water and boil to 220 degrees F. Put your pan containing the dissolved sugar and water (syrup) on a hot fire and wait until it boils.To test for 220 degree temperature,

Instructions

1. Take, with a spoon, a little of the syrup and drop slowly in cold water.
2. The sugar should drop out from the spoon into threads.
3. As more water evaporates and the temperature gets higher, a sample of syrup dropped into cold water forms on the main mass spherical globules, that resemble dark pearls.
4. They will gradually mix with the rest.
5. When this happens, remove from fire.
6. Beat the white of egg stiff and add the syrup (sugar) hot to the white of egg, beating constantly.
7. Add baking powder.
8. When the icing starts to foam, spread on cake.