Cookie Icing and Frosting Recipes

Ready for cookie decorating? Allrecipes has all the cookie icing, frosting and glaze recipes you'll ever need to take your cookies to the next level.

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Sugar Cookie Icing

Sugar Cookie Icing
Rating: Unrated
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This icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Choose as many different food colorings as you desire.
Smooth Chocolate Icing

Smooth Chocolate Icing
Rating: Unrated
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A simple and delicious chocolate icing. Great on top of my family's all-time favorite Truffle Cookies, the recipe for which can also be found on this site.
Sugar Cookie Glaze

Sugar Cookie Glaze
Rating: Unrated
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This glaze will dry to a hard shiny finish. Perfect as a base coat for cookies. Can be colored too; use as much food coloring as needed to create desired hue. Dries quickly.
Royal Icing II

Royal Icing II
Rating: Unrated
150
This recipe calls for meringue powder rather than egg whites.
Glaze Icing

Glaze Icing
Rating: Unrated
6
Great recipe for icing sugar cookies. Add gel-style food coloring to get your desired color.
Vanilla Glaze

Vanilla Glaze
Rating: Unrated
441
Great on Apple Cookies!
Butter Frosting

Butter Frosting
Rating: Unrated
190
Rich frosting, great on Banana Spice Cookies.
Easy Creamy Icing

Easy Creamy Icing
Rating: Unrated
5
This icing is ideal for anise cookies. Separate it into several little bowls for lots of colors. Tint with a few drops food coloring. Use little paintbrushes to color. Kids will love it!
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Inspiration and Ideas

Easy Tips to Decorate Cookies

Easy Tips to Decorate Cookies
Once you get a feel for the basics, you can keep practicing to take your skills to any level you wish.
How To Make A Piping Bag From Parchment Paper

How To Make A Piping Bag From Parchment Paper
Want to do fancy icing designs but don’t have the right piping equipment? You’re in luck! With just a few easy steps you can do detailed icing work with what you already have in your kitchen.
Heart Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing

Heart Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing
Rating: Unrated
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Sugar Cookie Icing

Sugar Cookie Icing
Rating: Unrated
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Royal Icing I

Royal Icing I
Rating: Unrated
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Sugar Cookie Frosting

Sugar Cookie Frosting
Rating: Unrated
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Chocolate Cookie Buttercream Frosting

Rating: 4.57 stars
292

Creamy frosting that tastes great on cookies or bars...especially Chocolate Cookies.

More Cookie Icing and Frosting Recipes

Butter Icing for Sugar Cookies

Rating: 4.4 stars
228
Here's a terrific recipe for icing sugar cookies, no raw egg whites. For any recipes that require egg whites, you can purchase dried, powdered egg whites at cake-decorating supply stores that can be substituted in most recipes calling for the regular raw egg whites, then you can still lick the bowl!
By Cali

Glossy Royal Icing

Rating: 4.5 stars
90
I received this recipe from a professional baker. I prefer to use this instead of a regular royal icing recipe with egg whites. It hardens nicely and is glossy rather than matte like regular royal icing. Use almond, orange, or lemon extract, whatever you prefer.
By BEVANGELISTA

Royal Icing III

Rating: 4.58 stars
205
A recipe for Gingerbread House icing.
By Veronica

Healthier Sugar Cookie Icing

Rating: 3.91 stars
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This icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Choose as many different food colorings as you desire.
By MakeItHealthy

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting

Rating: 4.56 stars
33
This tastes exactly like cookie dough, for those of you who 'love' cookie dough! No eggs added, so safe to eat as a snack...well maybe not for your thighs. Excellent to make a little thicker and eat on a spoon or add more cream or milk and make a dip out of it!
By Denece Frisbie

Egg-Free Royal Icing

Rating: 5 stars
1
This easy royal icing recipe dries shiny and hard! Add more or less milk based on how thick you want your icing. You can replace the almond extract with any flavor you prefer. Add food coloring of your choice.
By A Shadd

Shiny Cookie Icing

Rating: 4.55 stars
59
Shiny icing my mom loves to put on shaped sugar cookies. We decorate cookies around Halloween and Christmas; it's a great family tradition! Color the frosting with food coloring to your desired shade.
By VeganCourtney

Stiff Royal Icing

Rating: 4.33 stars
3
Gingerbread house icing you can eat. It holds together really well! To use, place in piping bag or use spatula to spread onto the gingerbread house pieces to stick them together. This icing can also be used to decorate the tops of cookies.
By HeatherB

Heart Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing

Rating: 3.5 stars
4
Iced heart-shaped cookies make a lovely gift for your Valentine. This recipe uses the flood technique with royal icing to achieve a gorgeous and smooth result that sets firmly.
By Magda

Gingerbread Frosting for Cookies

Rating: 4.59 stars
50
This delicious, thick frosting is a perfect topping for snickerdoodles, gingersnaps, or even on a gingerbread house! It makes enough for 12 average size cookies.
By allybaker22

Icing for Sour Cream Cookies

Rating: 4.35 stars
27
This icing is delicious spread over cookies or cupcakes.
By Celeste

Egg Paint

Rating: 4.5 stars
17
This shiny paint is a nice alternative to frosting your cookies. Paint the cookies before you pop them in the oven!
By Christie B

Healthier Sugar Cookie Frosting

Rating: 4.2 stars
4
Using low-fat milk and natural no trans-fat shortening make this great frosting recipe healthier. If desired, use natural food dye to color the frosting.
By MakeItHealthy

Vegan Royal Icing with Aquafaba

A simple vegan royal icing made with aquafaba instead of egg whites. It's so tasty and works really well to decorate gingerbread houses and cookies, and dries shiny and hard. Make sure to store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to use.
By Fioa

Anne's Awesome "Glass" Royal Icing

This is a traditional royal icing, but the consistency is perfect for a Martha-style cookie! They are just BEAUTIFUL and the icing hardens but is not rock hard... ahhhhh perfection. Eat your heart out Martha! To add colors, transfer a small amount of royal icing from the base recipe into a different bowl and mix in Wilton® gel icing colors.
By PREGOCOOK

Apricot Cookie Frosting

Rating: 4.67 stars
6
This frosting is especially devised to be spread on top of the Frosted Apricot Cookie.
By m-ann

Egg Yolk Tempera

Rating: 3.89 stars
15
This makes a shiny gloss finish on most any cookie. It works best on light-colored cookies, like sugar cookie cutouts. Depending on the color you are going for, you will probably need between 2 and 8 drops of food coloring.
By LG Burnett

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookie Frosting

Rating: 4.75 stars
4
Frosting for Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies III.
By Mellan
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