Icing and How to Ice

Ingredients

• 50 g chocolate
• 100 g powdered sugar
• 3 spoonfuls water
• 1 count egg white
• 130 g icing sugar
• 1/4 count lemon
• 1 spoonful rosolio or alkermes

Instructions

1. Black icing: melt grated chocolate with water, add sugar, and boil to the short-thread stage.
2. Cool in a water bath, stirring, until the surface skins over, then spread and set the cake briefly with top heat.
3. White icing: beat egg white, icing sugar, lemon juice, and rosolio (or alkermes for color) until firm but flowing; spread and let it dry, or pipe a design.