Cookie Frosting/Freezing Question!!
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Cookie Frosting/Freezing Question!!
Is it better to freeze sugar cookie cut outs frosted, or unfrosted??
Also, does anyone have a good cookie GLAZE recipe? You know, the drippy white stuff that hardens on the outside but is still soft when you bite into it? I can't stand meringue powder, so I need a recipe that doesn't include that. I have one that uses corn syrup, but it's never tasted right to me...it always tasted TOO corn syrupy. Maybe I don't have the right proportions.
Also, can you freeze those peanut butter blossoms with the hershey kiss in the center? Can you freeze chocolate crinkle cookies that get rolled in confectioner's sugar and then baked?
TIA!
I think without the frosting is better.
I have frozen both the crinkles and the peanut butter blossoms--no trouble.
I would think the peanut butter blossoms would freeze just fine. Probably unfrosted would be better, too.
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Cookie Glaze
NGREDIENTS
* 1 cup confectioners' sugar
* 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
* 2 tablespoons water
* 10 drops food coloring
DIRECTIONS
1. Stir confectioners' sugar, corn syrup, and water together. Stir in food coloring if desired. This glaze must be stirred each time you use it. If it is not stirred before each use it will dry with a mottled look instead of a solid color.
I know it has corn sryup, but imagine that only a tablespoon wouldn't taste that corn syrupy.
Cookie Glaze Recipe Has gotten mixed reviews. Some loved it and some didn't.
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Cookie Glaze
COOKIE GLAZE
Here is the secret for making "shiny" cookies. Glaze your cookies with this recipe and then add details with royal icing.
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup warm water
1 T. light corn syrup
1/4 t. flavoring (almond, orange, lemon, etc.)
A couple drops of white coloring (this makes the glaze opaque rather than transparent)
Desired coloring
Add syrup and extract to warm water in mixing bowl. Mix to dissolve syrup in warm water. Add sugar and white coloring. Mix on low until you form a smooth glaze. Before putting in on the cookie, you want it warm, so put it in the microwave a few seconds before using, until it is baby bottle warm.
When you have finished making the glaze, store it in a a plastic covered container. NO need to refrigerate. It will stay for over a week.
After storing glaze it is not unusual for the heavier sugars to settle to the bottom of the container. Simply put the glaze in the microwave to soften it again and mix thoroughly.
You can apply to the cookie in different ways. The easiest is to simply dip the top of the cookie into the glaze until fully covered. Just hold the cookies around the edges with your fingers to do this. You aren't trying to dip the back of the cookie. Place the cookie on a cookie rack to drip (with wax paper underneath). Or you can put the glaze into squirt bottles and use them to 'fill' in areas previously outlined. Also, you can dip a cookie in one color, and while it is still wet on the cookie rack, apply a different colored glaze with a squirt bottle in a decorative fashion.
Cookies made with this glaze can be decorated ahead of time and frozen.
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Snowy Sugar Glaze
Use snowy sugar glaze to cover the cookies first, then use colored glaze to decorate in straight lines, drizzles, squiggly lines or dots. Let the glaze dry and harden to create a perfect work surface. Do not use egg yolk on cookies after they have been baked.
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons skim milk
*Few drops green food color
1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Make sure cookies are completely cool then coat each cookie with the white glaze.
2. To make colors, remove one of tablespoon glaze to several custard cups. Add 1 or 2 drops of food coloring to each. Make some tints and some darker colors for creative decorating. Use a small brush or toothpick to swirl colors into desired patterns on cookies.
3. To use the same recipe as frosting, simply add a little more powdered sugar to thicken.
*Food Coloring comes in two forms, paste or liquid. The paste makes the most vivid and varied colors, but liquid can also work well. Start with a tiny amount of food coloring and add more until desired color is reached.
Cookie Glaze
I have always used cake frosting, works really well for me. I love cut out cookies, they are my favorite!
The thing I notice about the glaze verses the cake frosting is.. The glaze doesn't get all over the other cookies, it hardens once it dries, unlike cake frosting. I would freeze unfrosted, also. The other cookies should be fine though.
Glaze works better if you want to give them as gifts, in my opinion.
Frosting does not freeze well!
The kids and I want to try the glaze. We usually just make a buttercream frosting.
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