need your good icing recipe for sugar cookies, I have some powered sugar and cream cheese?

Question

Making sugar cookies today and need a recipe for frosting them! Not too much of the sugar taste, but something that would "harden" and look and taste good!

Answer 1

Sugar Cookie Icing

1 cup confectioner's sugar
2 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
assorted food coloring

In a small bowl, stir together confectioner's sugar and milk until smooth. Beat in corn syrup and almond extract until icing is smooth and glossy. If icing is too thick, add more corn syrup.
Divide into separate bowls, and add food colorings to each to desired intensity. Dip cookies, or paint them with a brush.

This icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Makes enough for 1 dozen cookies.

Answer 2

Sugar Cookie Frosting

Ingredients-
4 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup shortening
5 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
food coloring (optional)


Preparation-
In a large bowl, cream together the confectioners' sugar and shortening until smooth. Gradually mix in the milk and vanilla with an electric mixer until smooth and stiff, about 5 minutes. Color with food coloring if desired.

Answer 3

Here is a good basic recipe. Use cream cheese instead of the butter.

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tablespoon milk
3 drops red food coloring opt
1 (2.25 ounce) jar red decorator sugar opt

DIRECTIONS
Combine confectioners' sugar butter, vanilla and milk, beating until creamy. Thin with a few more drops of milk (if necessary) to reach desired spreading consistency. Stir in optional food coloring. Spread frosting over cooled cookies and decorate with colored sugar, if desired.

If you want a good icing that is and stays 'hard' but is tasty, try this one.

INGREDIENTS
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
assorted food coloring
DIRECTIONS
In a small bowl, stir together confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth. Beat in corn syrup and almond extract until icing is smooth and glossy. If icing is too thick, add more corn syrup.
Divide into separate bowls, and add food colorings to each to desired intensity. Dip cookies, or paint them with a brush.

Answer 4

powdered sugar and milk, that's it, make it into like a glaze and put it on cookies, it makes the harder frosting when it dries, you can add food coloring so that it will be more festive

Answer 5

usually powder sugar, water, coloring, vanilla extract and mix... don't know the exact amounts but it does harden

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