Decorative Icing

Name: Decorative Icing
Yield: Coats about 2 dozen 2-inch cookies
Ingredients: 1 - 2 tablespoons, milk; 1 cup, confectioners' sugar; , food coloring (optional); 2 - 3 drops, flavored extracts (vanilla, peppermint, cherry, banana, almond, etc.) to taste (optional)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1993

Desserts or Baked Goods

SERVESCoats about 2 dozen 2-inch cookies

TIME10 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted a holiday cookie dough recipe that could be shaped into a variety of rich and tender cookies. When we added some cornstarch, which tenderized the dough, we had our perfect butter cookie recipe.

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