Description
This sugar cookie icing that hardens is a sweet, smooth, easy recipe that is perfect for holiday cookies, birthday treats, cookie decorating, dessert boards, and make-ahead baking. It spreads beautifully, sets with a firm finish, and makes a great choice for easy dessert ideas, homemade sweets, party food ideas, and simple baking projects when you want cookies that look polished and stack neatly.
Ingredients
2 cups powdered sugar
4 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract, optional
food coloring, optional
Instructions
1. Add the powdered sugar to a medium mixing bowl.
2. Pour in the milk, corn syrup, vanilla extract, and almond extract if using.
3. Whisk until the icing is smooth, glossy, and free of lumps.
4. Check the texture. Add a few drops of milk if you want a thinner icing for flooding cookies, or add a little more powdered sugar if you want it thicker for outlining.
5. Divide into small bowls and stir in food coloring if desired.
6. Spread or pipe the icing onto completely cooled sugar cookies.
7. Use a toothpick to guide the icing and remove air bubbles.
8. Let the cookies sit at room temperature until the icing is fully hardened before stacking or storing.
Notes
Let the cookies cool completely before icing so the glaze sets properly.
Add liquid very slowly because even a small amount can thin the icing quickly.
For best stacking results, leave the decorated cookies out several hours or overnight until fully firm.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-Cook
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 60
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 5mg
- Fat: 0g
- Saturated Fat: 0g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 15g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 0g
- Cholesterol: 0mg