Sugar icing for cookies. Recipe: Milk and Powdered Sugar Glaze

Everyone knows that perfection is a sign of perfection. Sometimes a small touch, made by the hand of a master, can change the fate of a creation and make it unique. And what about cooking? It's simple: to give a confectionery product individuality is the cherry on the cake, which determines the handwriting and reflects the degree of attitude towards the person to whom it is intended. In other words, only for the dearest people, we will try even in small things, bringing visual pleasure.

Icing for cookies is a moment of creativity, a flight of fancy. She can turn even the most ordinary product into a real masterpiece. Icing for cookies at home allows you to keep fresh longer than usual, create many decoration options, and come up with interesting flavors. The recipe for icing for cookies, each housewife chooses, observing addictions, based on situationality, personal qualities, and capabilities.

How to make cookie icing

There are 2 main principles that will come in handy in your work:

1. The icing for drawing the contours should be thick and not spread.
2. The consistency of the glaze to fill in the details of the image should be more liquid than contour. The mass should smoothly self-level after application.

So, consider the most popular and successful recipes.

Icing

White icing for cookies (icing), great for painting. It is easy to prepare and quite convenient to use. This recipe is great if you want to cook with icing. In addition, it can be easily shaded with dyes.

The color version will delight kids, diversify the festive table, with its cheerful colors. Dyes can be added both artificial and natural. Start from your own beliefs and preferences.

Ingredients

• Chicken protein - 1 pc.
• Powder - 150-200 grams
• Lemon juice - 0.5 tsp
• Food coloring (optional)

Cooking method

1. We separate the protein. Add sifted icing sugar and lemon juice. Stir so that the mass becomes homogeneous and the powder does not scatter in different directions when whipping.
2. Beat the glaze with a mixer for about 3 minutes. This allows you to get a more snow-white shade.
3. We set aside a part for contour drawing.
4. To get the perfect consistency for filling parts, add a teaspoon to the rest of the mass of ordinary water. Stir thoroughly each time and follow the texture. When the furrows from the spoon begin to “tighten” smoothly during stirring, forming a smooth glossy surface, the mass is ready for use.
5. Divide the icing into the required number of parts, and color each in your own shade.

It is believed that the ideal glaze for pouring parts spreads, forming a perfectly flat surface in 8-10 seconds.

If you prefer naturalness, use vegetable juices as dyes. For example, to get shades of red (from light pink to burgundy), add beetroot juice instead of lemon. The saturation of the color will depend on the quantity.

To achieve an orange tint, you can add carrot juice, green - broccoli (spinach) juice. A few drops of strawberry juice will color the mass in a pleasant reddish color.

We decorate products with a pastry bag and a special nozzle for fine lines. You can also use disposable pastry bags.

Sugar icing for cookies

This is a lifesaver for all occasions. Putting a gloss on a piece of ordinary bun, the food turns into an elegant cake. Such a glaze is suitable for shortbread cookies, and for gingerbread cookies. Made from just 2 components. But there is one point - it turns out not as snow-white as icing (on proteins). I use this option for everyday home baking. And for the festive decoration, I recommend using the previous recipe.

Ingredients

• Powdered sugar - 150 g
• Water - 1 tbsp. (approximately)

Cooking method

1. In a deep container, combine the two components. Stir thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
2. It is better to add water gradually, and not all at once, while controlling the consistency. You may need a little more water, or vice versa less.

The finished mass should be viscous. Having dropped a drop on a flat surface, it should not spread too quickly.

caramel icing

This option is more troublesome to prepare, but has a pleasant caramel flavor. Perfectly complements cookies, and cake, and even a cake.

Ingredients

• Brown sugar - 125 gr.
• Powdered sugar - 250 gr.
• Butter - 60 gr.
• Milk - 40 ml.

Cooking method

For cooking, it is preferable to use dishes with a thick bottom.

1. We put the container with oil on a slow fire.
2. After the butter has melted, pour in the sugar and, stirring, bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute.
3. We begin to pour milk in a thin stream, without stopping to interfere.
4. Bring to a boil again and remove from heat.
5. Allow the mass to cool slightly, after which we add the powdered sugar in portions (in parts).
6. Bringing to uniformity, stirring all the lumps, put the container with the mass in an ice bath to cool. Stir occasionally and keep an eye on the consistency. As a result, you will get a viscous glaze.

Chocolate icing for cookies

Chocolate is truly the king of the dessert world. will not leave indifferent any sweet tooth.

Ingredients

• Milk - 250 ml
• Cocoa - 3 tbsp. l.
• Butter - 50 gr.
• Dark chocolate - 140 grams

Cooking method

1. Pour cocoa into slightly warmed milk, stirring constantly, heat the contents.
2. Break the chocolate into pieces and pour into the hot mixture.
3. Mix until a homogeneous paste. Then, remove from heat and add oil.
4. Let the fondant cool a little, decorate the pastries.

Fantasize, experiment, find your own unique style. Involve your children, relatives and friends in this wonderful cause. It's not for nothing that they say, "Man does not live by bread alone." The aesthetic side is just as important as the gastronomic side. Feel this balance and share with others.

Cookies, even if they melt in your mouth, become dull and uninteresting without frosting.

I want my favorite delicacy to give pleasure not only to taste buds, but also to please the eye. There are plenty of ways to decorate baked goods.

By giving baked goods a festive look, you achieve several goals at the same time.

Firstly, cookies with icing can be served for a celebration, since its appearance allows it to be done without a twinge of conscience.

Secondly, pastries stay fresh longer. And thirdly, you do not have to spend money on glaze, because all the ingredients for its preparation are easily available and cost mere pennies.

Experienced housewives probably know how to make icing for cookies, but this article will come in handy for novice cooks.

I think that those who have decorated pastries with their own hands more than once will have something to learn.

Recipe: Milk and Powdered Sugar Glaze

Icing sugar will come in handy as a decoration if you decide to serve pastries on the festive table.

For young children who like to eat with their eyes first and then put food in their mouths, I recommend using this technique more often. They will experience delight and surprise as soon as they look at such cookies.

Yes, and hostesses will not hurt to improve their culinary experience when they try to paint pastries with icing sugar.

You will need a mixer and products from the following list:

half a glass of powdered sugar; 5 ml of milk; teaspoon sl. oils; a few salt crystals; some vanilla.

Cookie frosting preparation:

1. Soften the butter.
2. Pour in powdered sugar and salt.
3. Add vanilla and milk to the mixture.
4. Beat everything with a mixer until you get a homogeneous mixture.
5. The icing is ready, you can start working with it: decorating cookies or other pastries.

Recipe: Caramel Icing

To make a decoration, you will need the following ingredients:

2 large spoons of butter; 1/2 cup brown sugar; powdered sugar - one glass; 45 ml milk and vanilla essence to taste.

Cooking steps:

1. Melt the butter, mix it with brown sugar and milk.
2. Boil the mass for only one minute, then remove from the stove to the table.
3. Pour in some of the powdered sugar, beat with a whisk until smooth and fluffy.
4. Add vanilla and remaining powdered sugar, continue beating.

Caramel flavored sugar icing is ready to use. You can fill it with a culinary syringe and draw various patterns on cookies.

Recipe: Icing for Gingerbread Cookies

Decorating pastries, every housewife wants to give her a unique and festive look.

White icing for cookies is also useful for puffs, it will make them sweet, and for baking shortbread dough.

In the latter case, you will get a tea treat that will stay fresh and crumbly longer.

Just two ingredients - powdered sugar and whole milk - are mixed with a mixer and applied to pastries. It will take you a few minutes to prepare the icing for cookies, but the festive look of the treat is guaranteed.

You need: powdered sugar - 150 g; 3 large spoons of milk.

Vanilla can be used as desired, this ingredient is optional.

Let's start preparing the glaze by boiling the milk. Then:

1. Remove the bowl of milk from the heat and immediately stir in the powdered sugar.
2. Stir the mixture and return to the fire.
3. While constantly stirring the icing with a spoon, hold it on the stove for a few minutes until it thickens.
4. Lay the pastry on the board and apply a thin layer of glaze with a brush.
5. To make it harden faster, send the pastries to the refrigerator, then sprinkle with multi-colored coconut flakes, chopped nuts or decorate with mastic flowers.

A festive and beautiful decoration is ready, call everyone to the table.

Recipe: Chocolate colored icing

Decoration for baking makes it elegant and appetizing. Chocolate icing for cookies is applied in a warm form until the hardening process has begun.

It is convenient to paint the surface of cakes and pastries with icing, it looks favorably on a light background.

But let's not delay the cooking process for a long time, and above all, write down all the ingredients:

100 gram dark chocolate bar; powdered sugar - 250 g; 100 ml whole milk and a tablespoon of butter.

For a piquant taste, you can add a pinch of ground black pepper to the glaze, but this is not necessary.

First, break the chocolate with your hands and place in a bowl.

After:

1. Build a water bath and melt the chocolate with milk.
2. Add powdered sugar and butter.
3. Stir the chocolate colored icing with a spoon until it becomes homogeneous and smooth.

Recipe: Creamy glaze

Having prepared the decoration, you can easily paint the cookies with various patterns. You just need to do it quickly, because it freezes.

For the cookie icing you will need:

5 st. spoons oils; a glass of granulated sugar; 150 ml cream; vanilla to taste.

Cookie frosting steps:

1. Measure the butter into a metal bowl.
2. Pour sugar and put the dishes on a slow fire.
3. Boil the mixture until it turns a light brown color.
4. Remove the mixture from the heat for a minute, pour in the cream and beat with a mixer. You should get a lush caramel-colored mass (as in the photo), you need to return it to the stove again and boil for about ten minutes.
5. Cool the mass a little in the air, constantly whisking it with a whisk. Add vanilla if that was your plan and start decorating the cookies.

Recipe: Honey Coating

The decoration with the aroma of honey is shiny and festive. Make it at home, because it is not difficult.

The main thing is to have products at hand:

50 g of oil; 45 ml lemon juice; 2 tbsp. tablespoons of honey of medium density and the same amount of granulated sugar (it is better if it is powdered sugar).

The first thing you should do is mix all the ingredients in a saucepan.

Then:

1. Put the mixture on low heat.
2. Boil until smooth.
3. When the mass cools down a bit and begins to stretch, you can decorate pastries.

Cover the cookies completely or paint them with patterns, how you proceed depends on taste and flight of fancy.

Some cooks like their creation to be a single color of white or brown and sprinkled with nuts.

Others prefer to paint cookies, giving the lines an intricate look. One thing is clear - baking attracts with its originality, you definitely want to try it.

Recipe: Lemon Glaze

The piquant sourness that this decoration gives will appeal to many gourmets. They will certainly appreciate the characteristic smell of citrus fruits, and, as you know, it can improve mood.

Take: 100 g of oil; 30 ml lemon juice. You will need more powdered sugar (3 cups).

Whip melted butter with sugar and lemon juice. The resulting fluffy mass of snow-white color is suitable for painting baking when it cools slightly.

Colored glaze, which is made from coffee and marshmallows in chocolate

For cookies, a still warm coating is suitable, it should not be cooled for too long.

To prepare the glaze, you need to stock up:

100 ml of milk; 100 g of sugar; 1 teaspoon of good quality instant coffee; 3 pcs. marshmallows in chocolate.

Marshmallows cut into cubes, as in the photo, heat the milk.

After:

1. Pour coffee into milk, stir until dissolved.
2. Melt butter in another saucepan, add sugar and boil until smooth.
3. Mix the sweet mixture with coffee milk.
4. Add chopped marshmallows.
5. When it blooms, hold the colored glaze on the fire for another 12-15 minutes.

Decorate the baked goods and cool completely. Serve on the table, laid out on a dish.

My video recipe

Recently I was ordered to make simple homemade cookies with colored sugar icing. I had to look in my notes for a good recipe that would be inexpensive, but at the same time, so that the pastries turned out tasty and beautiful. I opted for the option that was once my favorite.

There are a lot of ingredients for the dough, but they are all available. In addition, a lot of cookies are obtained from one serving. One of the most important components is potato starch, which makes it possible to make pastries more crumbly and tender. Everything is prepared quickly, in haste, and can be stored for a long time if not eaten immediately.

Recipe Information

Cooking method: in the oven .

Total cooking time: 30 min. (additional 60 minutes in the refrigerator) min.

Servings: 35-40 pcs. .

Ingredients:

• flour - 3 tbsp.
• butter - 150 g
• potato starch - 125 g
• salt - a pinch.
• soda - ½ tsp
• baking powder - ½ tsp
• sugar - 1 cup
• milk - 2/3 cup
• egg - 1 pc.
• vanilla sugar - 1 sachet

for glaze:

• powdered sugar - about 200 g
• lemon juice
• food coloring.

How to cook:

1. 
   Butter should be at room temperature. Then it is easy to beat. Put it in a bowl and beat with a mixer. But you can just grind with a fork. Pour sugar, vanilla sugar (preparations at home) and grind (or beat) everything together until smooth.
2. Add one egg.
3. 
   Mix thoroughly.
4. 
   Sift the entire portion of flour into a separate bowl, send baking powder, soda, salt, starch (sifted) there.
5. 
   Pour half of the dry mixture into the oil mass. We mix.
6. 
   We add milk.
7. 
   And add the rest of the dry mixture.
8. 
   Knead the dough and form a ball. Wrap it up in cling film. We send it to the refrigerator for 1-2 hours or to the freezer for 30-40 minutes.
9. 
   We take out the chilled dough and roll it into a layer 0.3-0.5 cm thick. Please note that cookies will grow well in the oven. So we make it thinner. Squeeze out the hearts with molds.
10. 
    Lay out on a baking sheet lined with parchment. We put in a preheated oven. We bake cookies at home at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.
11. 
    We take out ruddy hearts from the oven. Let them cool down. And we send the next batch to bake. I got almost four batches from one serving of dough.
12. 
    Prepare the icing for the cookies. Sift the icing sugar into a deep bowl. Pour 3-4 tablespoons into a separate cup. lemon juice or citric acid diluted in water. There's also food coloring. And gradually mix.
13. 
    You need to add liquid until you get the consistency of liquid sour cream. It is important to catch the moment here so that the icing is not thick, but not very liquid either.
14. 
    We cover our homemade heart cookies with the resulting fudge and let dry on parchment or on a wire rack. Excess frosting may run off. If you wish, you can decorate the cookies with sprinkles, sprinkling on the icing that has not yet hardened.

Note to the owner:

• This icing can be used to decorate gingerbread, Easter cakes, cookies or shortbread. It does not dry quickly, but then it does not lose its shape. If it seemed to you that the glaze was already dry after half an hour, it is not. It is soft inside. If you start packing the cookies, you will immediately see that the icing begins to melt and lose its shape. So let it dry thoroughly, even overnight.
• If you love chocolate chip cookies, add 1-2 tbsp. cocoa powder. In this case, you need to take less flour by 1-2 tbsp. Or use one of the ready-made

Many are wary of icing to decorate it. Glossy icing for New Year's cookies, despite its fairly simple recipe, requires special diligence and high concentration to obtain the perfect consistency. ELLE - how to make the perfect icing for New Year's cookies.

It is believed that properly prepared icing is not only beautiful, but also healthy, because under it the cookies retain freshness longer. The main thing is that it should be of the right consistency - not too thick and not too liquid, but similar to sour cream or honey. Only in this case will it be easily applied to cookies, quickly grab and will not treacherously drain around the edges. However, even if suddenly the glaze turned out to be too liquid, you can add an extra spoon of powdered sugar to thicken it, and if it is too thick, an additional half-spoon of warm water will do the trick.

What is the icing for Christmas cookies made from?

To prepare the glaze, you need only three simple ingredients - egg white, powdered sugar and lemon juice. The basic recipe, for about 1 kilogram of cookies, consists of 1 protein, 150 g of powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Pastry experts insist that the whitest glaze is obtained from large white eggs, so it is advisable to give preference to them. Before mixing the ingredients, it is better to pre-sift the powder.

To create a colored glaze, you need to add food coloring of the selected shades to it.

In addition to the icing of the sour cream texture for coating cookies, there is also a recipe for a thicker icing (150 g more powdered sugar - you get the texture of peanut butter), which can be used to create additional details of the pattern, whether it be a nose and eyes of a snowman, toys on a Christmas tree or stars in the sky . With such icing, you can draw with dots, lines, create patterns on a stencil, and it is for them that experienced creators of holiday cookies recommend making the primary outline of the pattern around the perimeter of the future fill. It is believed that after this, the more liquid (basic) glaze will be easier to apply to the entire surface of the cookie.

How to frost Christmas cookies?

In order for the glaze to be evenly applied to the cookies, pastry bags or syringes are usually used. In this case, for each shade of glaze, a separate bag should be allocated. If it was not possible to acquire special bags in advance, you can contrive and use a transparent plastic bag with a paper cone attached to it for this purpose.

To draw small details when decorating cookies on the farm, special plastic mini-shovels and the most ordinary toothpicks will come in handy - they are easy to decorate micro-details.

How to store icing for New Year's cookies?

It does not matter if with all this preparation of cookies and icing there is no time left for the decoration process itself - the finished icing can be put in a tightly closed container and stored for 3-5 days without loss of quality. It is very important to remember that glaze hardens quickly in air, so the most important thing in storing it is not to let it "breathe". In this way, the icing can immediately be prepared for a large number of New Year's Eve party cookies, which can later be baked in two or three passes.

Each type of pastry, whether it be luxurious cakes, miniature cupcakes or original cookies, with icing will look not only more beautiful, but will be even tastier. They brightly decorate any festive table, and also become a unique gift for a family celebration. Quick-drying icing for cookies at home will certainly turn out to be very refined with an unsurpassed taste, you just have to choose the right recipe and reveal a few little secrets of its preparation.

Chocolate icing for cookies - a delicate tradition of craftsmanship

Almost all recipes that make chocolate icing for cookies consist of a certain amount of cocoa powder, fresh milk and butter. The last ingredient is used to add shine and softness to the finished product. Depending on how much each product is taken, and its properties are considered. So, you can get glaze of different consistency, softness, color and even shine.

Powdered sugar is also added to chocolate icing, which speeds up the process of obtaining the final product. Coconut flakes, chopped nuts and vanilla will add a special taste to the baking, as a result of which the baking will turn out to be as rich as possible.

Do not apply icing on cookies too hot, otherwise it may ugly drain from the surface of the finished baking. Also, you should not apply it very late, otherwise the glaze will lie unevenly with lumps and the appearance of the cookies will deteriorate significantly.

Chocolate icing for cookies with cocoa and milk - a classic recipe

Ingredients:

1. Three tablespoons of milk;
2. Six teaspoons of cocoa powder;
3. Five tablespoons of granulated sugar;
4. Forty-five grams of butter;
5. Vanilla to taste.

Cooking method:

All ingredients must be mixed in a metal, best of all enameled small ladle, if there is none, then in a small saucepan. All you need to gradually warm up over low heat, stirring constantly. This may take 3-4 minutes or more. The readiness of the glaze is checked by a test drop, which we send from a spoon to a cold saucer. We immediately spread the prepared icing on the cookies so that it does not have time to harden.

White icing for cookies - simple and fast

Ingredients:

1. Eight tablespoons of lemon juice;
2. Half a kilo of powdered sugar.

Cooking method:

Lemon syrup is mixed with powdered sugar in a small saucepan and put on a small fire. Cook for a few minutes until completely thickened. The icing is then immediately applied to the baked goods.

Colored icing for cookies - prepared by professionals

Colored glaze is often used not only by housewives at home, but also by professional confectioners in production. After hardening, such a glaze retains well all its even the brightest colors and hardens perfectly. It will perfectly complement the look and taste of any cookies, and can also be applied as patterns on cakes.

Ingredients:

1. One tablespoon of powdered sugar;
2. Two teaspoons of milk;
3. Food dyes;
4. Two teaspoons of sugar syrup;
5. Almond extract.

Cooking method:

So, how to decorate cookies with icing? First you need to mix powdered sugar and milk, then add sugar syrup with flavoring and beat. When the icing becomes shiny and smooth, stop the whipping process. Then we lay out the resulting mass in equal containers, in each we add a certain dye. Now it remains only to dip the cookies in the icing, or apply it on it with a special brush.

In addition to the types of confectionery coatings described above, there are also lemon, orange, and caramel glazes. The main thing is to show imagination, and then your dish will be filled with bright colors and unusual taste!