Make this amazing Cream Cheese Glaze for Cookies instead of royal icing! Easy to prepare, perfect for holiday cookies that are simply beautiful!
Cream Cheese Glaze for Cookies
I am at it again, attempting to perfect royal icing cookies. This time I tried a new recipe that has cream cheese in it and it is much tastier than the original recipe I was using in my first few attempts. I also found a great tutorial on How to Marble Royal Icing by Sweetopia.
I used my normal cookie recipe to make these cream cheese glaze cookies and made about 18, 3-inch cookies from one batch. I used a wooden skewer to drag the icing. This method can be utilized for any holiday or special occasion, just remember to practice practice practice!
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Cream Cheese Glaze for Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 batch of cookies cut and baked to desired shape
- 2 OZ cream cheese
- 2 T corn syrup
- 4 1/2 c powdered sugar
- 1 T vanilla bean or vanilla extract
- 3/4 C milk
- Gel food coloring
Instructions
- Cream the cream cheese, corn syrup and vanilla together.
- Slowly add 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar, or a little more, and then add the milk a little at a time until it is the right consistency (this should be a little bit thicker than pancake batter to use Sweetopia's method. You may not need to use all the milk or you may need more. Aim for thicker than necessary, so you can color it and then thin it with a little more milk if necessary.
- Let cookies dry until set (8-12 hours depending on humidity).
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Just wondering if the T stands for tablespoons or teaspoons in this recipe? Thanks!
Tablespoons
Very pretty cookies! Nice job.
Wow, these are gorgeous looking cookies! They caught my eye over at the Creativity Unleashed Party. The icing designs look very difficult even with the use of a wooden skewer. Do you have any tips on how I might be able to make mine as pretty?
G’day! I LOVE your cookies and picked them as my Host Fave! GREAT photos!
Thanks for sharing!
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Cheers! Joanne
Beautifully decorated cookies! Just beautiful!
Thanks you so much! I love making these.
Beautiful cookies! Thanks for sharing at Foodie Friends Friday!
Your decorating is amazing..Thanks for sharing these on Foodie Friends Friday Valentine’s Party and I hope you will join us for our Snack Food theme party this week.
Ooh yum, that frosting sounds amazing! And those cookies are so pretty! Pinning, and I featured this today on my blog!
How am I just now seeing this?! Where am I, Bevin?! I’m too old for the internets… Lol
Super cute cookies! 🙂
They are beautiful! Dropping by from Sweethearts Linky Party
Do these dry hard? Could u add meringue powder so they dry hard like royal icing?
Yes they do dry hard, they are kind of a cream cheese version of royal icing. I prefer the flavor of these to the ones with meringue powder. Here is my original recipe using meringue powder Royal Icing. I feel like the cream cheese is a little bit more delicate for sure though.
Can you pipe with this icing in the same way as standard RI?
Thank you.
Can you freeze these sugar cookies with this icing ?
I would freeze without the icing and then when they are thawed frost them
I am pretty late to the party, but I am wondering if these need to be refrigerated due to the cream cheese in the glaze? I.HATE.ROYAL.ICING. but I LOVE how it looks! I have been considering doing the base color on my cookie using a corn syrup glaze, and then do the detail with RI. Do you think that would work?
All my best,
JamieinWyoming
Figures. The one question I had and nobody answered.
Does the icing harden so that you can stack the cookies?
I too am not a fan of the flavor of royal icing and was excited to find an alternative! Beware: The amount of milk is way more than needed!! 1/2 the amount got a very thin “flood” icing–I had to take a few scoops out and thicken to get a “border” consistency. Other than that–it turned out very well
Thank you for this comment! I really want to make this but Royal Icing irritates me and I don’t like the flavor. Your consistency comment is a big help!
Delicious! I love how royal icing looks but how it tastes, and this is such a great alternative. I didn’t do anything detailed with it, though — just one solid coat. I needed just shy of 1/2 c of milk to get the consistency I wanted. Thanks so much for this recipe — I think it might become my new Christmas cookie icing.
This will be my go to recipe for royal icing. Love the flavor.