Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe
It’s that time of year again, where we’re looking through the internet to find the best recipes to save for the upcoming holidays. When I think of Holiday desserts I think of Sugar Cookies, and this is the Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe.
This Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe will come out smooth and creamy. It tastes like vanilla and a hint of butter.
Why You Will Love This Frosting?
Have you ever seen beautifully decorated cookies, yet once you bite them the icing taste bitter? Yuck! That’s even worse when you brought a whole platter of those beautifully decorated cookies to the Christmas party for the guests to leave the same nasty taste in their mouths.
This is a buttercream-style frosting with a smooth and creamy texture. The taste is sweet vanilla with a rich buttery finish.
Why Your Kids Will Love This:
- Taste- It is not bitter. It tastes like sugar, yet it is not too sweet where it is intolerable.
- Ease- It is made less than 10 minutes!
- Variety- There are different ways that you can put the icing onto the sugar cookies. You can spread it on with a knife, melt the icing and the cookies in it, pipe it, or melting it. The color of the icing can also can be changed. And of course, kids love glitter and sprinkles and that is lovely way to finish off your sugar cookies.
- Basic Ingriendients- To achieve to this tasty frosting all you need are these basic ingredients: butter, powdered sugar, milk, vanilla extract, and almond extract.
Recipe Tips
- This frosting texture can easily be adjusted by adding more milk to thin it out. Alternatively, you can add more powder to thicken it up.
- Depending on the brand of sugar you get you may have more clumps of sugar in it. Make sure you whisk the lumps out before adding it to the butter.
- Use butter that is soft yet cool to the touch. It should be soft enough to blend. However, not soft enough where it will loose it’s shape.
Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 3 cups powdered sugar ( whisk the lumps out if needed)
- 1 tablespoon of half and half or milk, plus more as needed
- 1 3/4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Using a hand mixer beat the butter and half of the powdered sugar until it is well combined. If you are using an electric mixer start it out low increasing it to medium-high. Slowly add the remaining powdered sugar. Continue beating and add the extracts, pinch of salt, and 1 tablespoon of milk. If desired, this is the point where you will add food coloring.
- Turn the mixer to medium-high and beat well. If you are not using an electric mixer, just stir until all lumps are out and ingredients are well combined. Depending on how thick you or thin you want the texture to be you will add the powder to thicken the frosting, You will add milk to thin the frosting.
Frosting the Cookie
- Using a piping bag, or a bottle add the melted frosting to the bag or bottle. Once the cookies are cool start spreading the icing over the cookie. View the pictures below to see how to do so. Immediately, top with sprinkles if desired. Because it is wet and it will stick. For the melted frosting directions see this.
Notes
Outline the outside of your Christmas Sugar Cookie with frosting. Use the tip of the piper or whatever tool you decide to ice your cookies with.
Fill the middle of the cookie with the buttercream frosting that you just made.
Take a toothpick or an angled kitchen tool and smooth out the icing. Try to stay within the border of the lines that you made.
You can make any designs that you prefer. In this example, the Christmas tree sugar cookie has a zig-zag line down the middle. You will see in the next image how the picture will then start to transform.
However, after you smooth out the middle section you can decorate your frosting as you and your kids, please.
A simple line is drawn down the middle of the zig-zags. This gives the illusion of a real Christmas Tree and the branches. You can top it with a star and put dots of colorful icing on the branches for the decorations.
