Fourth of July Cake: Royal Icing Fireworks

Video Transcript

"For our fireworks, we're going to be using royal icing. To make royal icing, you need two cups of confectioners sugar, one egg white, and a quarter teaspoon of lemon juice. Put this all together in a mixing bowl, and beat it until it's nice and smooth. This is the consistency of the royal icing that you want. If it's too runny and thin, then you want to add a little more confectioners sugar, and if it's become too dry, you just add a little bit more egg white, just a little bit at a time. You want to color this. We're coloring it yellow for our fireworks, and then I'll show you how to make some fun fireworks. To make the fireworks, you'll need a piece of baking pip. You want to set up a tray with a piece of baking paper, and make sure that it's laying flat. You prepare one of our wires, our swirly wires, with a little circle on top, and make sure that it lays flat on the tray. Now, I've colored our royal icing yellow, to make our firework. Ok, you first want to put a little bit of the royal icing down, and place the circle of our wire on top of it, and then we’re going to just pipe a firework, coming down and back, and make a nice firework design. Don't make it too thick in the middle here, or it will take very long to dry, and if you come down to a point, and make it a little thicker as you come back. The royal icing is very forgiving. You can make any kind of a shape. There, there's a nice burst. Now, this should dry overnight, or you can put it in a very low oven for three or four hours, until it's dried. When our fireworks are dry, we want to remove it from the baking paper. Now, they're going to be very brittle when they're dry, so you should probably make more than you might need, because it's possible that, that one may break. To remove it, you want to just very, very gently, just put your hand underneath, and kind of peel the paper away from the firework, very gently, and you want to be very careful with these, and there's our firework."