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Butter Icing for Sugar Cookies

SUBMITTED BY: Cali      PHOTO BY: LAURINMULLER

"Here's a terrific recipe for icing sugar cookies, no raw egg whites. For any recipes that require egg whites, you can purchase dried, powdered egg whites at cake-decorating supply stores that can be substituted in most recipes calling for the regular raw egg whites, then you can still lick the bowl!"
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Original recipe yield: 1 cup
    
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INGREDIENTS

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

DIRECTIONS

  1. 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.
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Reviewed on Sep. 30, 2003 by JON AND ANGIE
This recipe is good yet, I made some adjustments to make it better. Instead of butter I used cream cheese the icing seemed to hold together better and I used almond flavoring in place of vanilla. After my slight adjustments I can then make this icing thick enough for cinnamon rolls or thin enough to 'paint' my christmas cookies. Thanks for the submission.

10 users found this review helpful
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Reviewed on Dec. 9, 2003 by ERIN CARO
This recipe was fast and turned out very creamy. However, it calls for WAY too much vanilla. Half the amount is a better guess.

7 users found this review helpful
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Reviewed on Nov. 5, 2003 by CLH201
The whole tablespoon of vanilla was too much-and without the foodcoloring, it makes brown icing. I would lessen the vanilla to a tsp., not a whole tablespoon.

7 users found this review helpful


 
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NUTRITION INFORMATION

Servings Per Recipe: 8

Amount Per Serving

Calories: 162

  • Total Fat: 4.4g
  • Cholesterol: 12mg
  • Sodium: 45mg
  • Total Carbs: 30.6g
  •     Dietary Fiber: 0g
  • Protein: 0.1g

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