Best Tasting Sugar Cookie Icing

COOKIE ICING

Best Tasting Sugar Cookie Icing - 4 ingredients and 5 minutes! People have been begging for this frosting recipe for years. Now you have it!

INGREDIENTS

• 1 recipe Christmas sugar cookies (cut out cookies)
• 6 cups powdered sugar
• ¼-½ cup whole milk
• ¼ cup light corn syrup
• 2 teaspoons almond extract
• gel food coloring (in desired colors)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or using an electric mixer) combine sugar and ¼ cup milk.  Mix until smooth.  Add milk as need to create a smooth mixture, one tablespoon at a time.  Add corn syrup and almond extract.
2. To decorate cookies, your outline icing should be the consistency of toothpaste, your flood icing should be the consistency of corn syrup.
3. Add food coloring one drop at a time until desired color is reached.  Pour into bottles, decorator bags or a cup.  Keep unused icing sealed until ready to use.

DONNA'S NOTES

1. The icing will dry hard. It can take up to overnight before I would recommend stacking them. I store mine on cookie sheets tented with foil to keep the cookie bottoms from drying out while they are drying.
2. You absolutely can substitute vanilla extract (or any other extract). Keep in mind, it will give your icing a slightly off white hue but if you are coloring it anyway it won't matter.
3. This icing will keep for several weeks on the countertop, in a sealed container. I actually keep mine much longer than that.

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