My mixer broke in the middle of this order so I decided to make my royal icing by hand… and I gotta say if you don’t have a mixer or hand mixer and are wondering if Royal icing can be made by hand only, yes! The pictures don’t show it as much but these were actually significantly shinier than my normal Royal icing cookies made with my mixer. They set up perfectly, I just had to add some extra powdered sugar to my recipe to compensate for the lack of vigorous whipping. Be warned: your arm and hand will get tired from mixing haha!