Description
Sweet sugar cookie icing brings delightful artistry to festive treats, turning simple cookies into colorful masterpieces. Delicate glazes and elegant designs will inspire bakers to create memorable desserts that charm family and friends.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1.5 cups (180g) powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons (30mL) warm water
Binding/Sweetening Agents:
- 0.5 tablespoon (10g) light corn syrup
Flavoring:
- 1/8 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
Instructions
- Gently sift the powdered sugar into a pristine mixing vessel, ensuring a silky-smooth texture without any lumps.
- Pour warm water, corn syrup, and your preferred flavor extract into the powdered sugar, whisking with fluid motions until the mixture transforms into a lustrous, uniform glaze.
- Fine-tune the icing’s viscosity by incrementally introducing additional water or powdered sugar, creating a consistency that flows effortlessly yet maintains structural integrity.
- Infuse vibrant personality into the icing by incorporating food coloring, blending droplets until you achieve the precise chromatic palette desired for your confectionery canvas.
- Carefully transfer the prepared icing into piping bags, selecting precision tips that will allow artistic expression across your cookie surface.
- Delicately adorn cookies with intricate designs, allowing your creativity to guide each delicate stroke and swirl.
- Position decorated cookies in a stable environment at ambient temperature, permitting the icing to gradually solidify and develop a glossy, firm shell over approximately 1-2 hours.
Notes
- Sifting powdered sugar ensures a silky-smooth texture without any lumps, creating a flawless icing base.
- Use warm water to help dissolve sugar quickly and create a glossy, uniform consistency that spreads beautifully on cookies.
- Experiment with different extracts like vanilla, almond, or peppermint to customize the flavor profile and make your icing unique.
- Add food coloring gradually to achieve vibrant or pastel shades, mixing thoroughly to distribute color evenly without streaking.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 hours
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 45
- Sugar: 9g
- Sodium: 0mg
- Fat: 0g
- Saturated Fat: 0g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 11g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 0g
- Cholesterol: 0mg