Name: Pink Icing
Ingredients: pink confectioner's sugar; cochineal or prepared fruit coloring

Pink Icing

Ingredients

pink confectioner's sugar
cochineal or prepared fruit coloring

Directions

Make icing using pink confectioner's sugar.
If desired, add cochineal or prepared fruit coloring to achieve the desired shade.
Use as a topping for cakes or pastries.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.