I love all the beautiful sugar cookies I’ve been seeing online lately and when I stumbled upon Our Best Bites Glacé Icing recipe I immediately wanted to try it. I’m not a fan of royal icing nor buttercream, so an icing that is “super forgiving, easy to use, and it actually tastes good” sounded like a must try.
I was lucky enough to have my sweet foodie friends, Becky, Vintage Mixer, and Tiffany, Food Finery and her beautiful daughters, join me in the kitchen to try our hand at this fun new icing technique.
I used my favorite sugar cookie recipe. It puffs up a bit more than other sugar cookie recipes I’ve tried, but it’s tender and delicious and I’ve yet to find one I like better.
Visit Our Best Bites for the Glacé Icing recipe and great tutorial on decorating cookies with the Glacé Icing.
Sugar Cookies with Glacé Icing
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup butter 2 sticks
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs beaten
Instructions
- Sift together flour, baking powder and baking soda.
- Cut in butter with a pastry cutter, or pulse in a food processor until mixture looks like sand.
- Mix in sugar. Mix in beaten eggs and knead into a ball.
- Divide into two pieces and form into two disks. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for one hour.
- Cut out shapes and place on baking sheets. Bake at 375º 6 to 8 minutes.
Robyn Clarke
These are beautiful, I love the tiny pink hearts.
Happy Easter 🙂
anncoo
WOW! These very pretty cookies! Happy Easter 🙂
kim sisto robinson
~~Oh, I must try these.
They look magical 🙂
Renata
Barbara, thanks for the tips about the icing. Your cookies are so cute! You have inspired me to make sugar cookies again. My first and last time was for the DB’s many challenges ago 🙂
Happy Easter!
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
Mum! These are so beautiful! 😀 I love the feathering effect you have on them. So sweet 😀 xxx
Barton
Wow too pretty for me! Royal icing is to be treated as a preservative dont eat the stuff! great design and photos
sheila @ Elements
These are so cute!!! You did a wonderful job decorating them!! I sure wish I could have one! 🙂
Angie's Recipes
Those sugar cookies are so pretty!
Trisha
Very pretty cookies Barbara, I love the colors used!
Lindsey @ Gingerbread Bagels
Wow what absolutely gorgeous cookies. They look perfect! 🙂
Donna
I knew you would have festive Easter goodies! Beautiful!
Gabriella
Ciao Barbara,
Quesri biscotti decorati sono belli e mettono allegria, come la primavera, mi piacciono tanto,sono anche in tema con la Pasqua quindi brava!
A presto
Tiffany - food finery
I wondered when you might post this 🙂 it was a fun afternoon! That picture looks great!!!
Barbara | VinoLuciStyle
The do look pretty. I actually love a buttercream frosting but it would never allow for making cookies look like this. Wishing I had a little kid or two that would go crazy over these; I need an excuse to make them!
Emily
I’ve tried their glace icing and wasn’t wowed by the taste. Perhaps my powdered sugar was old? I don’t know, but it sure does make for pretty looking cookies…and yours are!
Rosa
These are soooo pretty and well decorated!
Happy Easter!
Cheers,
Rosa
Traci
I too used the glace icing awhile ago and absolutely loved the ease of it. The cookies came out looking fantastic! So much better than that nasty Royal Icing that hates me! 🙂
Anita Menon
Beautiful cookies. Gorgeous colors and patterns….
mamatkamal
So cute! Lovely colours!
Cheers
Mamatkamal
Joanne @ FifteenSpatulas.com
WOW. Those cookies are beautiful! Looks like it requires a lot of skill and patience too.