I absolutely love this sugar cookie recipe, made it for the first time last Christmas and it’s a keeper. However I’ve been having trouble finding a frosting recipe that
1) contains no shortening or margarine or corn syrup, ingredients I hate using.
2) dries well enough that you can stack the cookies after they are frosted
and
3) tastes good!
So I explored allrecipes.com, which I love because you can sort by highest rating, and found this recipe, with lots of positive reviews and none of the dreaded “bad” ingredients. Just butter, sugar, milk, and vanilla. This frosting takes minutes to whip up (as long as the butter has softened) and tastes fabulous. Perfect for these fun fall cookies I took to class tonight! I’ll be using this recipe again on Christmas cookies.
Decorator Frosting (from allrecipes.com)
Ingredients:
2/3 cup butter
4 cups confectioners sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, confectioners’ sugar, and milk until light and fluffy, about 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in the vanilla and food coloring. Spread on or between cookies.
I thought this tasted familiar! This is the way my mom makes it, it’s the only frosting I’ll ever use on sugar cookies.
Lovely. Even I hate shortening.
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Thsi si amazing!!!!!!!!! I was short on shortening and frosting, but I still wanted to make cookies with frosting. This has saved me a fight with a little one and it is amazing.
Thank you sooooo much for the post.
Thanks sooo much.
Not only was it a lifesaver, it tastes amazing too!!! Everyone who tryed my cookies were just amazed by the fact that I made it, and you can’t buy frosting this good in a store
so good love it!!!
So quick so easy.. even with my electric mixer on the fritz and doing it by hand… DELICIOUS!! thanks!
does this frosting (or the finished frosted cookies for that matter) need to be refrigerated?
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BAD!
This is wonderful frosting, thank you! I love the slight buttery taste. Thanks so much for providing one that doesn’t require corn syrup – ICK! Trying to avoid GMO’s is difficult therefore I make so much homemade so seeing nothing but recipes online that required corn syrup was disheartening. Thanks again!!