Anyone know a good recipe for cookie icing? I just realized I don't have any icing sugar and I am in the middle of making gingerbread cookies....

Can you make icing with regular sugar? Even a kind of glaze would be good...

fiona

By Lauram on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 12:43 pm:

confectioner's sugar
vanilla 1 tsp
a little bit of milk.

Don't know the amts off the top of my head (I'm at work)- but basically just mix the milk in the sugar until it is the right consistency. Then add food coloring for different colors.

By Dawnk777 on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 02:47 pm:

I use the same frosting I use for cake.

3 cups confectioner's sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine
2-3 T. milk
1 tsp vanilla
Any food coloring you choose to add.

I use a pastry blender to mix the flour and sugar. Then add the milk and vanilla; stir until blended. If I'm really lazy, I use my mixer to mix it up!

By Bea on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 04:32 pm:

Do you want the kind that dries hard?

By Fionadeassis on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 07:40 am:

Is confectioners sugar icing sugar? That is what I ran out of.......I was hoping for some secret recipe that uses regular sugar...LOL.....

Anyways...the gingerbread cookie dough is sitting in a big cold lump in the fridge......Kiko decided that yesterday was a good day to teeth and I basically had to hold him all day...

Maybe hopefully today I will make the cookies.....

thanks....

By Dawnk777 on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 09:51 am:

Feona, I really didn't read the message. I just quicked typed my recipe! I didn't have much time yesterday. Yes, icing sugar is confectioner's sugar. Hope you get to the cookies today.

I think that frosting made with regular sugar would be a bit gritty.

By Cat on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 09:55 am:

Confectioner's sugar is also known as powdered sugar. I don't think making it with regular sugar would work. Unless you grind it into a powder first. (Hey, Martha Stewart would! lol )

By Lauram on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 10:30 am:

I forgot to add that with my recipe add a bit of oil too. I just did it last night. I don't really measure. A bunch of powdered suger. A bit of oil. A tsp or so of vanilla. Add milk a little at a time until it is the right consistency. It's very yummy icing!

By Bea on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 05:05 pm:

You can make powdered sugar in a food processor. Simply process granular sugar on high until it is powdered.