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Sugar Cookie Icing. This icing recipe is the "Holy Grail" of icing. This Sugar Cookie Icing recipe is made with just a few simple ingredients and incredibly easy to make too. Divide icing into separate bowls and stir in food coloring as desired.
Since you may already be familiar with my sugar cookie recipe, I'm using today to focus on the icing. Colorful, glossy icing transforms plain sugar cookies into edible works of art. Ours is flavored with almond extract, but feel free to use vanilla or peppermint, or whatever flavor your heart desires. You can cook Sugar Cookie Icing using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Sugar Cookie Icing
- You need 4 cups of powdered sugar.
- You need 9 tsp of milk.
- You need 4 tsp of corn syrup.
- It’s 2 tsp of Almond emulsion.
- It’s 2 tsp of lemon oil or extract.
These are SERIOUSLY amazing sugar cookies with delicious frosting! This Sugar Cookie Icing is buttery sweet and made in minutes. It's the ideal texture for pouring in With a melted butter base, this sugar cookie icing is made without light corn syrup (a riff on this. Two ingredient sugar cookie icing recipe that hardens on cookies.
Sugar Cookie Icing instructions
- Measure out powdered sugar and set aside.
- Measure milk and pour into medium to large bowl.
- Slowly add powdered sugar, making sure to mix well after each addition, or it will become clumpy..
- After all sugar has been added, mixture WILL BE VERY THICK. Add your corn syrup, and mix well..
- Add your extracts. I like almond emulsion because it is thicker and tastes better, as with the lemon oil, however, extracts will work..
- If mixture is still too thick, you can add more corn syrup, but only a little at a time..
- Separate and color!.
This sugar cookie icing dries hard but melts in your mouth as soon as you take a bite! Make this best tasting recipe for decorating holiday cookies. This easy sugar cookie icing takes the intimidation out of traditional royal icing recipes. It can be made in one bowl (without a mixer!) and is the perfect recipe to quickly frost your holiday cookies. This sugar cookie icing recipe hardens into a beautiful glassy surface that's durable enough to be stacked, wrapped, or transported on a bumpy bus ride.
