Lemon Flavoured cookie glaze
Cream cheese helps keep this from getting cloyingly sweet. Easy to make and fun to use. This could probably be used for other purposes - drizzle on a cake? Colour and flavour as you like or use it straight.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
- 224 g confectioner's sugar (2 cups)
- 3 TBSP milk
- 28 g cream cheese softened (1 oz)
- food colouring (optional)
- 1 tsp lemon extract (this is oil based which is fainter - alcohol based, start with ½ tsp!)
Whisk together in a bowl until mixed and smooth
decorate away, let set at least 30 minutes before serving, several hours before storing.
- The glaze fades - I mean look at all that white stuff you're putting in - so add colour until the glaze is a shade or two darker than what you want the final colour to be.
- I spread the cookies out on wax paper, inevitably, there are stray drips and puddles - these are handy for testing to see when the cookies are ready to store.
- If you get toddler level excited with the glaze and there's pools of it, you might want to let them set for a while in situ, then move to a cooling rack once the over spill is sturdy enough to not drip off, but still needs more time to fully set.
Omit the lemon extract and try these flavour options:
1. Fully citrus glaze:
Use lemon, lime or orange juice in place of milk
2. Coffee Glaze:
1¼ tsp instant espresso or coffee powder
3: Nuts:
½ tsp almond, coconut, or hazelnut extract (I'd double that if you're using subtler extract than the usual alcohol based stuff)
Honestly, that last one - doesn't have to be a nut flavour - any extract - vanilla? rose? strawberry? Whatever works for the recipe you're decorating.
Keyword cookies, decorating, glaze, holiday, sugar