Made using only three ingredients, this easy royal icing recipe is great for decorating or flooding sugar cookies or attaching flowers and buttercream roses to the tops of cakes or cupcakes. Get the recipe: https://trib.al/5u3w7pQ | Real Simple

Let’s talk royal icing. Specifically—how to get that smooth, puffed-up, even flood every time. Here are four of my go-to tips when flooding cookies: 1. Same icing for outline flood. I use the same royal icing consistency for both—usually around a 15–18 second count. It saves time and streamlines the process, especially when decorating large batches. 2. Don’t leave gaps. If you notice open spots or low areas while flooding, don’t rely solely on your scribe to move icing around. Just add a bit mor