Sugar Cookie Decorating Icing Recipe

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Sugar cookie decorating icing recipe. Mix on the lowest speed stir setting until combined 15 seconds. Beat powdered sugar vanilla corn syrup and 1 tablespoon milk in a small bowl until smooth. From here you can set the cookies aside and let them dry completely or keep decorating while wet.

You can use any of these cut-out sugar cookie recipes. Using a hand mixer or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat butter and half of the powdered sugar until well-combined starting out the mixer low and increasing to medium-high. Im no baker so that was pretty exciting.

In the bowl of a stand mixer or using an electric mixer combine sugar and cup milk. Ive been making this easy royal icing recipe for over twenty years with perfect results every time. I made this recipe to complement a sugar cookie recipe I perfected.

Prep a thin royal icing place it in a shallow bowl then dip the top of your cutout cookies into the icingdone. This frosting was bomb. I did find that I could make the few base colors of frosting I wanted to use basically the 2-3 colors of frosting I wanted to spread onto the cookies before doing the detailed decorating do the base layer of frosting on the cookies within about an hour of making the icing color the rest of the frosting with a bunch of.

For any recipes that require egg whites you can purchase dried powdered egg whites at cake-decorating supply stores that can be substituted in most recipes calling for the regular raw egg whites then you can still lick the bowl. To flood your cut out sugar cookies pipe an outline of icing on your sugar cookies and fill with glossy sugar cookie icing that hardens. Stir in food coloring to reach desired color.

Ours is flavored with almond extract but feel free to use vanilla or peppermint or whatever flavor your heart desires. Colorful glossy icing transforms plain sugar cookies into edible works of art. Add the powdered sugar 2 tablespoons of milk and vanilla extract.