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Sugar Cookie Icing

How to make beautiful Sugar Cookie Icing! Don't forget to check out my step by step photos and tips above!

Prep Time
5 mins
Total Time
5 mins
Servings: 1 batch
Calories: 535 kcal
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 2 teaspoons light corn syrup
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract
  • Food Coloring

Instructions

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  1. Sift sugar then mix in the corn syrup and extract.
  2. Add milk 1 tsp at a time until desired consistency is reached.
  3. Add food coloring a little at a time until you reach your desired color.

Notes

  • Follow my very best sugar cookie recipe to bake your cookies in any shape you like, they hold their shape beautifully once baked.
  • Make sure your sugar cookies are extra cold before icing, if they are warm the icing will just melt. I recommend placing the baked cookies in the fridge until they are extra cold.
  • When you're ready to decorate set out bowls full of your favorite sprinkles and different colors of icing to make it easy to decorate your cookies.
  • Don't worry about the sugar cookie icing in bowls there will be too much of it to harden. If a slight skin forms just give it a mix to break it back up!
  • The icing can take up to 24 hours to set completely hard so try not to stack them on top of each other too soon.
  • Once the icing has hardened you can stack them to take to parties or store them in cookie tins. 
  • Try not to add in too much extract or the flavor of the icing will overpower the sugar cookies, I find that 1/4 teaspoon is enough.
  • To ice the cookies use squeeze bottles or cut a very small incision into a plastic piping bag. I find that squeeze bottles are much easier to use!
  • Nutritional information is for the whole batch of icing.

Nutrition Information

Calories 535kcal (27%) Carbohydrates 136g (45%) Protein 1g (2%) Fat 1g (2%) Saturated Fat 1g (5%) Cholesterol 2mg (1%) Sodium 21mg (1%) Sugar 134g (268%) Calcium 17mg (2%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 1batch

Amount Per Serving

Calories 535

% Daily Value*

Calories 535kcal 27%
Carbohydrates 136g 45%
Protein 1g 2%
Fat 1g 2%
Saturated Fat 1g 5%
Cholesterol 2mg 1%
Sodium 21mg 1%
Sugar 134g 268%
Calcium 17mg 2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.