#SUGAR COOKIE ICING PLUS#

The bakeries back in the 60s and 70s used this recipe on their sugar cookies making them much sought after. With the necessary changes as stated by other other bakers (adding milk/corn syrup), you are going to love this recipe. Mine took about 16 hours that was with the additional corn syrup to make it the perfect consistency. Also, make sure they are thoroughly dry before stacking. I dipped mine and laid on the rack to dry. These are always requested by my friends and family. Also, I felt the recipe as it is (serving for 12) did not make enough to provide nice coverage of 12 cookies so for 1 dozen cookies, I increased the servings in this recipes(to change the ingredient amounts) to 24 and was stretching the icing at that. Pair with Betty Crocker sugar cookie bag mix and you have simple, beautiful, and delicious cookies. All you need is a few basic tools and your. The first and easiest way to decorate sugar cookies is to use store-bought frosting and dip the cookies into the icing.

The ratio of those three flavors is same flavor as buttercream wedding cake icing. This simple sugar cookie icing recipe is made in minutes with just 5 ingredients plus a little food coloring. This is sheer perfection to my family's palates. Also, I'm not a fan of an overpowing almond flavor (so little goes very far) so I use my old standby of 1 tsp butter flavoring and 1 tsp vanilla flavoring for every 1/4 tsp of almond flavoring. If the shine doesn't matter, just increase the milk little by little and don't increase the corn syrup. In exchange, you will have a nice shiny cookie icing. Keep in mind bakers, the more corn syrup you use, the longer it will take to dry. Ingredients cup butter softened, room temperature, salted or unsalted 3 cups powdered sugar 2 teaspoons clear vanilla extract 1 teaspoon if using. I too had to add some milk and corn syrup. This is the same icing I've seen others refer to as 'paint brush cookie' icing.

I agree that this is the 'holy grail' of sugar cookie icing recipes, same for petite fours. ingredients 1 cup powdered sugar 2 teaspoons milk 2 teaspoons light corn syrup 4 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1/4 teaspoon almond extract food coloring. Ingredients 2 cups powdered sugar 2-3 tablespoons water (luke-warm) can also use milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (oil-free for quicker drying time) use clear. Ingredients 1 Servings 1 cup confectioners sugar 1 tablespoon milk 1/4 teaspoon McCormick All Natural Pure Vanilla Extract substitution Substitutions.

#SUGAR COOKIE ICING PLUS#

Sugar cookie icing