Name: Homemade Sugar Cookie Frosting that Hardens
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 84
Ingredients: 2/3 c. butter (softened); 1/2 c. milk; 2 lbs powdered sugar; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1/4 tsp almond extract

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I have been searching for YEARS for the perfect Sugar Cookie Frosting recipe that hardens. I didn’t want an icing I wanted a frosting. One that would harden so I could stack my cookies without them sticking to each other. This homemade frosting that hardens is delicious and easy!

I’ve finally found the ONE. The one frosting that I’ll use every single time I make sugar cookies. It’s ridiculously easy and all the ingredients are in my pantry so I don’t have to search out for “weird” ingredients that will never be used again.

I’m not that kind of girl. I live in small town Minnesota and ain’t no one got time for that!

Ingredients for Homemade Sugar Cookie Frosting that Hardens!

Butter
Milk
Powdered sugar
Vanilla extract
Almond extract

Yup that’s right only FIVE Ingredients needed!

Happy dance happening right here isn’t it?

Plus, it’s totally adaptable to any occasion. Dye it a different color. Throw some festive sprinkles to celebrate any occasion or make sugar cookies and frost them for the heck of it!

Can we talk Christmas cookies? I adore them, my hips don’t adore them, but once a year I don’t really care what the hips say! I make all kinds of them, but my all time favorites are Almond Cherry Cookies, Chocolate Mint Thumbprint Cookies, Peanut Butter Ritz Cookies!

What is your favorite Christmas cookie? A more traditional, handed down recipe or something new and exciting?

Don’t forget these Soft Sugar Cookies that are perfect to pair with this amazing Sugar Cookie Frosting!

I feel this “expectation” when I go to holiday parties. People expect me to bring a cookie tray laden with deliciousness. I feel that I’m a fraud if I don’t bring the ultimate cookie platter. I try to make cookies for weeks so I have a good variety.

Except sugar cookies. I’ve always shied away from the rolling, cutting and frosting. It sounded overwhelming. I wanted to drop and bake and then stack and freeze. That’s more my kind of cookie baking!

Then I tried Pillsbury Sugar Cookies. You know the ones you find in your grocery’s diary aisle? The refrigerated pull about or cut ones…I need something fast, like super fast one day. I gave them a whirl. I promptly frosted them with this amazing Homemade Sugar Cookie Frosting that hardens.

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I served them secretly smiling. No one was going to know!

And then someone promptly asked me for my recipe for the cookies. I blushed and filled her in on my secret. She said, NO WAYYYYYYYY!

Yes Way. Totally. Not Lying.

Those cookies are soft, chewy and delicious. You top them with this amazing frosting for Sugar Cookies that hardens and Viola. You’ve got a home run.

I won’t tell if you don’t!