Easy

Butter Icing for Sugar Cookies

Total Time
11 min
8m prep · 3m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Easy
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🥬 Vegetarian 🌾 Gluten-Free 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

Here's a terrific recipe for buttercream icing for cookies with no raw egg whites. For any recipes that require egg whites, you can substitute dried, powdered egg whites, usually found at cake-decorating supply stores. Then you can still lick the bowl!

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 3 tablespoons butter , softened
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon milk , or more as needed
  • 3 dropss red food coloring , Optional

Instructions

  1. 1

    Beat sugar, butter, vanilla, and 1 tablespoon milk in a large bowl until creamy. Mix in more milk, 1 to 2 drops at a time, to reach desired spreading consistency. Stir in food coloring.

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