Sugar Cookie Icing
This quick and easy sugar cookie icing is the best topping you can choose, as it uses ingredients you most likely already have on hand. Use whatever food colors you like!
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Soft Royal Icing
For decorating your holiday cookies or cakes, try this easy 10-minute recipe for silky smooth sugar cookie icing.
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Recipe for Soft Royal Icing
This silky smooth sugar cookie icing recipe can be made in 10 minutes and is perfect for decorating your holiday cookies or cakes. 2 egg whites, 1/4 cup water or as needed, 1 package confectioners' sugar
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Soft Royal Icing Recipe
For decorating your holiday cookies or cakes, try this easy 10-minute recipe for silky smooth sugar cookie icing.
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I had SO much fun decorating these art palette sugar cookies! They look absolutely adorable and were super easy to do. Recipe below!
Dough:
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
Icing/Decor:
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar, packed
- About 3 tablespoons milk, more if needed
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Pretzel sticks
- ¼ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- M&Ms or other colorful candy
Dough:
1. In a medium bowl, cream the sugar and softened butter together for about 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and mix until well combined.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. Combine them with the egg mixture. Form dough into a disc and wrap with plastic wrap, then refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
3. Roll out on a lightly floured board until slightly thicker than ¼ inch. To create the palette shape, use a glass (mine were about 2.75 inches in diameter) to cut circles. Roll the circles out in one direction to create more of an oval shape. Then use a piping tip or a sharp knife to cut out another small circle along one edge.
4. Bake on parchment covered baking sheets at 375°F for 7-8 minutes or until slightly golden brown around the bottom edges. Let cool on the sheet for 3-5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Icing and Decorations:
1. While the cookies are cooling, start making your pretzel paintbrushes. Melt the chocolate chips in the microwave, stirring every 10-15 seconds. Dip one end of the pretzels in the chocolate. Then lay them on a parchment covered baking sheet and freeze for at least 5 minutes.
2. Melt the butter and let it cool slightly, 2-5 minutes. Add the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla, and whisk until smooth. Set aside a small amount of icing to be colored. When the cookies are completely cool, pipe the icing around the edges of the cookies, then flood them.
3. Go back to your pretzel paintbrushes. Dip the chocolate-covered ends into the colored icing, being careful not to completely cover the chocolate.
4. Arrange 4-6 M&Ms around the edge of each cookie. Then place a paintbrush on each one. Let set for at least an hour.
* Note that I did run out of icing for the last 1/3 or so! I would probably 1.5x the icing recipe next time.
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DIY No Spread Sugar Cookies
The perfect cookies for Christmas! These no spread sugar cookies are buttery and simple to make. Decorate them with an easy cookie icing.
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Quick note foranyone who likes to bake:
If you're sifting powered sugar with a metal sifter into a metal bowl, DON'T DO IT ON TOP OF A FOOD SCALE.
The powered sugar through the sifter generates a ton of static electricity and touching the bowl will release it, causing the food scale to short out and reset. You won't know how much sugar you have sifted already.
Also it lowkey hurts 0/10 do not recommend. totally didn't shock myself on purpose a few times before realizing it was fucking with the scale
Weigh the sugar out first, then sift it into another bowl away from the food scale to avoid shorting it out
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