Snowy Boiled Icing

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
• 2 egg whites
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• combine sugar, water, salt, and vinegar in a saucepan. cook and stir over medium heat just until clear. then cook without stirring until syrup spins a long thread when dropped from tip of spoon, or to 240 degrees f (115 degrees c).
• beat egg whites until soft peaks form. add syrup in a very thin stream, beating constantly. after all syrup is added, continue beating until frosting will hold its shape. mix in vanilla.