Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sugar cookies with icing. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
sugar cookies with icing is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. sugar cookies with icing is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
This icing recipe is the "Holy Grail" of icing. For the frosting for these cookies, I did not use a royal icing, which I know is popular. Truthfully, I don't really love the taste of royal frosting, and I know many of you don't keep meringue powder in your cabinets or feel comfortable making egg white frosting.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sugar cookies with icing using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make sugar cookies with icing:
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup softened butter
- Prepare 2 cup sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla
- Get 5 cup flour
- Get 2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Take 2 cup confectioners sugar
- Get 2 tsp milk
- Make ready 1 food coloring
It's a wonderful Since you may already be familiar with my sugar cookie recipe, I'm using today to focus on the icing. I love royal icing, but it can be pretty particular sometimes. This Sugar Cookie Icing is buttery sweet and made in minutes. It's the ideal texture for pouring in swirling designs over your soft sugar cookies or cut-out sugar cookies and hardens just enough to make them stackable for party platters and edible gift giving.
Steps to make sugar cookies with icing:
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla.
- Stir in flour, baking powder and salt.
- Cover and chill in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
- Roll out dough on flour-dusted surface to 1/2 inch thickness. Use cookie cutters.
- Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- 6-8 minutes in 400°F preheated oven.
- Let cookies cool completely before icing.
- Mix confectioners sugar and milk to make icing with desired food coloring. Adjust consistency of icing by added very small amounts of milk at a time.
Once the cookies are cool, make the icing. You'll need a thick 'border' icing and a thinner 'filler' icing. Sprinkle on a little edible glitter before the icing sets. This simple sugar cookie dough is a joy to work with, it's almost like rolling out play-doh. That's because you roll the dough out first before chilling it.
So that is going to wrap it up with this special food sugar cookies with icing recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I’m sure you can make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
