Cookie frosting recipe needed

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I am in urgent need of a frosting recipe for the cookies I plan to make tomorrow with my husband.
I thought all I was going to need was powdered sugar and water for the frosting, but both the
recipes we found called for " meringue powder"????? We live in a very small town and our grocery
store doesn't even sell solid white tuna for goodness sake. The chancess of it having Meringue
powder are really small. Someone out there has a nice easy recipe for sugar cookies frosting
right? Please, share it with us. We wanted to spend Friday making cookies and I don't want to use
those dreadful little tubes of pre -made frosting on my nice home made cookies.

Thanking you all in advance Amber and Harold

You are on your own as to colour choices, but if you can use the paste type food colouring, it does
a better job.

----FROSTING---- 6 oz cream cheese; softened 6 tablespoon butter; softened 2 1/4 cup
powdered sugar
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

. Frosting: Combine cream cheese, butter, and vanilla. Add powdered sugar andbeat until light and
fluffy. Blend in coconut, nuts, and raisins. REC.FOOD.RECIPES ARCHIVES /CAKES From
rec.food.cooking archives. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, erols.comhoseyOpen ↗.

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On 05 Dec 2003 04:52:29 GMT, [email hidden] (Amberinauburn)

Quoted message said:

I am in urgent need of a frosting recipe for the cookies I plan to make tomorrow with my husband. I
thought all I was going to need was powdered sugar and water for the frosting, but both the recipes
we found called for " meringue powder"????? We live in a very small town and our grocery store
doesn't even sell solid white tuna for goodness sake. The chancess of it having Meringue powder are
really small. Someone out there has a nice easy recipe for sugar cookies frosting right? Please,
share it with us. We wanted to spend Friday making cookies and I don't want to use those dreadful
little tubes of pre -made frosting on my nice home made cookies.

Powdered sugar and almost anything. Lemon juice, orange juice, light cream, milk, coffee. A few
drops of vanilla & cream/milk. Half teaspoon of cocoa powder and cream/milk. Peppermint extract,
almond extract, rum, pineapple juice. Just put the powdered sugar in a small dish and mix in
dribbles of liquid. Amount of liquid will determine "spreadable" or "glaze" consistency.

Hark! I heard [email hidden] (Amberinauburn) say:

Quoted message said:

I am in urgent need of a frosting recipe for the cookies I plan to make tomorrow with my husband.
I thought all I was going to need was powdered sugar and water for the frosting, but both the
recipes we found called for " meringue powder"????? We live in a very small town and our grocery
store doesn't even sell solid white tuna for goodness sake. The chancess of it having Meringue
powder are really small. Someone out there has a nice easy recipe for sugar cookies frosting
right? Please, share it with us. We wanted to spend Friday making cookies and I don't want to use
those dreadful little tubes of pre -made frosting on my nice home made cookies.

My mother always used powdered sugar, milk, and a little butter to frost her cut-out cookies. Start
with a small bowl, put in some p. sugar, add milk in small dribs until you have the consistency you
want, then about 1/2 tsp. of butter. Good stuff, also goes well on graham crackers...

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[email hidden] (Amberinauburn) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

I am in urgent need of a frosting recipe for the cookies I plan to make tomorrow with my husband.
I thought all I was going to need was powdered sugar and water for the frosting, but both the
recipes we found called for " meringue powder"????? We live in a very small town and our grocery
store doesn't even sell solid white tuna for goodness sake. The chancess of it having Meringue
powder are really small. Someone out there has a nice easy recipe for sugar cookies frosting
right? Please, share it with us. We wanted to spend Friday making cookies and I don't want to use
those dreadful little tubes of pre -made frosting on my nice home made cookies.

Thanking you all in advance Amber and Harold

Beat together a pound of sugar, a stick of butter (softened), and 2-3 tablespoons water. Read that
in Joy of Cooking this morning. I might be off a bit in measurements, but probably not enough to
worry about. Add color and flavor if you like. Thin it a bit with water if you like. This'll make a
soft frosting. If your town has a library, see if you can find a book like this.

The book also mentioned that you can heat it in a double boiler for 5-7 minutes if you like to
smooth the flavor out.

The recipes you have with Meringue Powder are for royal icing. Royal icing is a smooth, hard,
attractive icing that also can give your cookies some longevity if you coat them with it. Many
groceries cary powdered egg white, which you can sub one to one with the other powder. Some
groceries even cary pasturized egg whites in a carton. You can find recipes for royal icing using
egg whites. You could even just use a real, honest to goodness egg white. Chances of salmonella
infection are very, very, very, very low.

Greg Zywicki