

Light Corn Syrup: The corn syrup helps the icing set up a little faster and makes it shinier too.If you’re not concerned about it or are coloring the icing feel free to use pure vanilla extract instead. Vanilla Extract: If you want a pure white icing, I recommend using clear vanilla extract.Don’t have any milk on hand? You can replace it with an equal amount of water. I’ve used whole, 2%, 1%, skim, and even almond milk and they all work great. Milk: Any kind of milk will work just fine in this recipe.You’ll be starting with 4 cups of powdered sugar. Powdered Sugar: Also known as confectioners sugar or icing sugar, this is the main component of the icing.To make homemade sugar cookie icing, you’ll need the following ingredients: When it comes to decorating sugar cookies, the sky is the limit! Making homemade icing for sugar cookies is incredibly easy and requires just four basic ingredients, plus some food coloring.Īfter testing this recipe many times, I can confidently say that it pipes easily (both for outlining cookies and filling them!), tastes delicious, and sets up nicely.Ĭustomize your homemade icing with whatever food coloring you’d like to suit the occasion, or transform one batch into multiple colors.
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This truly is the best ever sugar cookie icing! It hardens without becoming too crunchy, is full of vanilla flavor, and can be colored to suit any holiday.
