Comments on: Royal Icing for Sugar Cookies

By: LauraMaggie

LauraMaggie — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:15:33 +0000

Excellent icing for cookies. Worked well with food coloring and when dry, looks great. Thanks!

By: clnr

clnr — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:00:39 +0000

Just used this today on my Christmas cookies. They look and taste great (I used almond extract). The paintbrush worked perfectly. Thanks for the recipe!

By: Pam (Bored Cook)

Pam (Bored Cook) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:56:17 +0000

Ok, not sure why it keeps saying “yes” for where I meant to put “eyes”. Maybe it was me making that mistake twice? LOL

Anyway, that should be EYES and not YES. Sorry.

By: Pam (Bored Cook)

Pam (Bored Cook) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:54:47 +0000

Glad everyone likes it. It’s my favorite to work with as well.

Bethannabel:

I use a small tipped pain brush with a slanted tip. Once you cover the cooking in the icing I wait a few minutes, or just until a slight crust starts to form on the top of the cookie (making sure to keep them flat during this process or the frosting will pool on you). I then fill the tip of my brush with the black for the yes, and barely touching the cooking I leave a small circle/dollop for the yes. I do the same with the nose on the snowman, using the side of the slant tip to make the “carrot”. Very gently and barely touching the cookie. If you are waiting to do the accents on the cookies until they are fully dry you can of course apply more pressure.

Hope that helps.

By: bethannabel

bethannabel — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:42:05 +0000

What type of paintbrush are we talking about? Also, when you did the snowman’s eyes in the picture, for instance, how long did you have to wait after spreading the white icing, before adding the black icing? Can’t wait to try this out. Thanks for the recipe!

By: andreahaha

andreahaha — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:02:10 +0000

LOVE this recipe. I use it for all my sugar cookies now and get compliments. I mostly use the almond extract with vanilla & cinnamon sugar cookies. I didn’t have any paintbrushes on hand, so I used . . . chopsticks! Ha, it actually worked out really well. Also, I used shot glasses and small juice glasses to mix up different colors for the icing.

By: beckyann

beckyann — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:57:03 +0000

Beautiful icing! I used this recipe with my children & their cousins and I was very pleased with how they turned out!

By: coltandcorbin

coltandcorbin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:08:53 +0000

This recipe turned out perfectly on my Christmas cookies. I used it again for Valentine’s and Easter cookies.

By: pammy

pammy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:03 +0000

I’ve never tried making them with Lemon, but I bet they were good. I like making them with peppermint extract as well, but I will usually use a little less than the 1/2 teaspoon of other flavored extracts. The peppermint is a stronger extract, so less is usually better.

The paintbrush technique is the key to success with these. So much easier!

By: beckyann

beckyann — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:52:03 +0000

So, as I was looking for my lemon extract, I found my rum extract–very yummy! The kids had fun “painting” the cookies and I loved how pretty the icing turned out when it hardened! Great recipe!