How to Make Tasty Sugar Cookie Icing

Sugar Cookie Icing. This icing recipe is the "Holy Grail" of 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.

If it's too thick, add more corn syrup. Divide icing into separate bowls and stir in food coloring as desired. You can dip the cookies, paint them with a paint brush or spread them using a knife or the back of a spoon. You can have Sugar Cookie Icing using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sugar Cookie Icing

1. It's 4 cups of powdered sugar.
2. You need 9 tsp of milk.
3. You need 4 tsp of corn syrup.
4. You need 2 tsp of Almond emulsion.
5. It's 2 tsp of lemon oil or extract.

Sugar cookie icing is really a matter of personal taste, so I can understand this not agreeing with everyone. However, I though this was the BEST SUGAR COOKIE ICING I'VE EVER MADE! I've tried the confectionary sugar recipes a dozen different ways and they always come out sickly sweet. Ideal for decorating sugar cookies, thanks to its consistency, our cookie icing recipe is simply delicious, and you can easily manipulate its density to make it thicker or thinner.

Sugar Cookie Icing step by step

1. Measure out powdered sugar and set aside.
2. Measure milk and pour into medium to large bowl.
3. Slowly add powdered sugar, making sure to mix well after each addition, or it will become clumpy..
4. After all sugar has been added, mixture WILL BE VERY THICK. Add your corn syrup, and mix well..
5. Add your extracts. I like almond emulsion because it is thicker and tastes better, as with the lemon oil, however, extracts will work..
6. If mixture is still too thick, you can add more corn syrup, but only a little at a time..
7. Separate and color!.

And, like royal icing, this homemade sugar cookie icing dries quickly, which means you can add more decorations like colored sugar or sprinkles without having to wait hours for it to set. Mix Sugar, Corn Syrup, and Milk — Important things to keep in mind before you begin making Sugar Cookie Icing is (a) how you measure the sugar matters and (b) you will not be adding all of the milk on the first go-round. Then, use a whisk to mix the ingredients together. With a melted butter base, this sugar cookie icing is made without light corn syrup (a riff on this recipe from Tieghan of Half Baked Harvest) and has a decadently rich flavor that you can't achieve with the sugar and water glazes that often adorn sugar cookies. Scroll down for the printable sugar cookie icing recipe.