Description
Mexican-inspired sugar cookie frosting blends traditional techniques with modern flair. Royal icing provides elegant finishing touches for delicate cookies you’ll cherish from first bite to last.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup/2 sticks/226 g unsalted butter (softened)
- 4 cups/454 g powdered sugar (sifted for best results)
- 24 tbsps/360 ml milk (adjust for desired consistency)
- 1 tsp/5 ml vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp/0.6 g salt (optional, to balance sweetness)
- Food coloring (optional)
Instructions
- Butter Preparation: Whip softened butter in a large bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy, eliminating all visible lumps.
- Sugar Integration: Methodically fold powdered sugar into the butter at low speed, meticulously scraping bowl edges to ensure complete blending and prevent sugar clouds.
- Flavor and Texture Enhancement: Combine milk, vanilla extract, and salt into the mixture, blending on medium speed until the frosting achieves a harmonious, luxurious cream consistency.
- Consistency Calibration: Adjust frosting thickness by adding minimal milk if the texture seems too thick, targeting a spreadable yet stable composition that holds its shape.
- Color Customization: Divide frosting into separate containers and infuse with gel food coloring, creating vibrant palettes to transform ordinary sugar cookies into visually stunning treats.
- Decorative Application: Embellish completely cooled cookies using either precise piping techniques or smooth spreading with an offset spatula, ensuring professional-grade presentation.
- Stabilization: Allow decorated cookies to rest at room temperature, enabling the frosting to develop a delicate outer shell for effortless handling and storage.
Notes
- Butter Temperature Matters: Use room temperature butter for smooth, lump-free frosting that blends effortlessly and creates a creamy texture.
- Gradual Sugar Integration: Add powdered sugar slowly to prevent messy clouds and ensure a silky, even mixture without dry pockets.
- Consistency Control: Adjust frosting thickness by adding milk in tiny increments, aiming for a spreadable yet firm texture that holds shape on cookies.
- Color Creativity: Use gel food coloring for vibrant, concentrated hues that won’t thin out the frosting and create stunning visual designs.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 13
- Calories: 148
- Sugar: 16 g
- Sodium: 0.05 g
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4.5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2.5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 22 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 0.2 g
- Cholesterol: 15 mg