{"id":1178,"date":"2018-07-09T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T19:07:20","slug":"water-icing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/water-icing\/","title":{"rendered":"Water icing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water icing is simple and cheap to make. It&#8217;s also super flexible, suitable for many sweet treats!<\/p>\n<li>1 cup powdered sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; 3 tbsp hot water<\/li>\n<li>a few drops vanilla (optional)<\/li>\n<li>lemon juice (optional)<\/li>\n<li>other flavourings as appropriate for your recipe<\/li>\n<p>Sift the sugar into a bowl. Decide what optional flavourings you are going to add, if any, and have them to hand. <\/p>\n<p>Stir in the hot water until the icing is a little thicker than you want it to be. Add in any of the optional flavourings you want, then recheck the consistency. Add a little more hot water at a time, if needed, until it reaches the right consistency. Allow to rest for 30 minutes before use.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean &#8220;right consistency&#8221;? It depends on what you want it for. A drizzle on icing would need to be more liquid, icing for cinnamon rolls would be a little thicker. If in doubt make it a little thicker than you think it needs to be, try it on a small sample, then tweak the thickness as necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water icing is simple and cheap to make. It&#8217;s also super flexible, suitable for many sweet treats! 1 cup powdered sugar 2 &#8211; 3 tbsp hot water a few drops vanilla (optional) lemon juice (optional) other flavourings as appropriate for your recipe Sift the sugar into a bowl. Decide what optional flavourings you are going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,43],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipe","category-sugar","tag-cheap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}