Homemade Sugar Cookie Frosting that Hardens ~ The Perfect Sugar Cookie Frosting for Decorating! If You Are Looking for Frosting For Sugar Cookies that Hardens this is it!
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.
Tools Recommended to Make Homemade Sugar Cookie Frosting that Hardens!
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!
Homemade Sugar Cookie Frosting that Hardens
The Perfect Sugar Cookie Frosting for Decorating! If You Are Looking for Frosting For Sugar Cookies that Hardens this is it!
Ingredients
- 2/3 c. butter softened
- 1/2 c. milk
- 2 lbs powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp almond extract
Instructions
- In mixing bowl cream together butter and milk with an electric mixer. Slowly mix in powdered sugar and extracts.
- Frost sugar cookies immediately. Let frosting harden. Store cookies in air tight container.
Notes
Nutrition
Recipe Slightly Adapted from: Skip to My Lou
Can this recipe be made the night before & stored in an air tight container for frosting cookies the next morning? Having a small cookie decorating party for kids.
This was delicious and easy! Thanks for the great recipe!
You’re welcome! My fave frosting recipe!
What kind of milk do you use?
I usually use 2%.
Can you pipe this icing?
I haven’t tried it! You might need to thin it out with more milk!
Can you make this frosting in advance and refrigerateut for icing cookies the next day?
I’m sorry I haven’t tried that but if it’s in an air tight container I think it would work, just add a little milk and mix if it gets hard at all.
Is it really half a cup of milk?
Yes
Isn’t 2lb of Powder Sugar too much? Most other recipes I came across say 2 cups.
How many cups is 2 lbs of powderd suger?
8 cups
in the receipt it says 2 lbs of powdered sugar is it supposed to be 2 cups of powdered sugar 🙂 and what to be sure to add the right amount thank you
There are 8 c. in 2 lbs. I just measured it myself!
I still don’t understand the sugar measurements. According to Dominos Sugar, 2 pounds of confectioners sugar equals 7.5 cups. That seems like a lot of sugar.
This is correct. I measured myself and I got 8 c. in 2 lbs. This makes a lot of frosting. Feel free to cut it in half if you desire.
Is there a way to half this recipe? I don’t need that much frosting.
Sure just half all the ingredients. The powdered sugar would be about 4 c. since there are 8 c. in 2 lbs.
How many cookies can it frost?
Approximately 7 dozen.
Does this frosting store at room temp well? Meaning, could I make a batch of frosting, put each color in an airtight container, leave it out on the counter overnight, then open it up and spread it on a cookie?
No I think it will harden if you do that.
Great recipe! Spreads easily, pipes pretty well, and best of all it tastes delicious. I cut the recipe in half and had plenty of frosting for 3 dozen cookies.
So glad you loved it as much as we do!
2lbs is 32oz
32oz is 4 cups
Should we be using 8 cups? or 4?
There is 8 fluid oz in a cup this is not a weighted measurement. I measured the 2 lbs myself and it came out to 8 c.
Excellent recipe. I made it twice and it comes out perfectly delicious.
So glad you are enjoying it!
If spread thickly or decorated with many flowers (Russian tips), is the frosting soft under the crust?
Yes it should be.
Can you freeze the icing to use at a later date (a couple days to be exact)?
I’m sorry I’ve never tried this. I’m not sure it would work!
Hi. Would this icing work for using a food writer/icing pen on it? I don’t like fondant but want to write on some iced cookies :).
You might need to thin it out a bit with some more milk but I think that would work! Let me know if you try it!