in my classes, i have a couple of ladies that due to their religion, do not eat eggs - therefore, making it a little hard to use the meringue powder in the royal icing and color flow icing. does anyone know how to make the royal and color flow icing without the meringue powder?

I think there are recipes out there that don't use MP. Hopefully, someone else will be able to give you a recipe.

Saw this when I googled royal icing without eggs:

Vegan Royal Icing

Ingredients:
1 lb. confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup powdered soy milk
3/8 cup soy milk
3/8 cup light corn syrup
flavoring as desired

the above can be found at the following 2 links (with directions):
http://www.goodbaker.com/free-recipes-royal-icing.html
http://community.livejournal.com/cooking/5854622.html

Here's another one found at with directions on site: http://www.grouprecipes.com/31155/vegan-royal-icing.html:

Ingredients

* 1 cup confectioners' sugar
* 2 teaspoons milk substitute or water (I used rice milk)
* 2 teaspoons light corn syrup
* 1/4 teaspoon almond extract (I used clear vanilla instead)
* assorted food coloring


and here's another:
http://vegetationramblings.blogspot.com/2007/05/molasses-cookies.html


Hope one of these help.

wilton has a pourable frosting that dries hard. I tried it last yr at christmas and it worked fine.

thank you ladies for your help. i will certainly pass this along.

You're welcome