Fresh strawberry icing
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ⅔ | cup | Strawberries; sliced; fresh |
| 2 | Egg whites; unbeaten | |
| 1½ | cup | Sugar |
| 5 | tablespoons | Strawberry puree |
| ¾ | teaspoon | Light corn syrup |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Lemon juice |
Directions
Press strawberries through a fine wire sieve Combine egg whites, sugar, 5 tablespoons strawberry puree, corn syrup, and lemon juice in top of double boiler, beating with rotary egg beater until thoroughly mixed. Place over rapidly boiling water, beating constantly with rotary egg beater, and cook 6 to 7 minutes, or until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from boiling water and beat until thick enough to spread. Makes enough frosting to cover tops and sides of two 8-inch layers.
Posted to fatfree digest by "Ross, Lynne" <Lynne.Ross@...> on May 21, 1999, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.