There’s something weirdly satisfying about watching royal icing flow across a cookie like shiny sugar lava — right before it dries into a flawless, bakery-level finish. This simple royal icing recipe ...

Ree Drummond’s royal icing is a must-have when it comes to holiday baking. The celebrity chef uses it to decorate everything from Pioneer Woman gingerbread cookies to classic sugar cookies. Best of ...

To start, you’ll need an electric mixer of some sort—either a handheld mixer or a stand mixer fitted with the whisk ...

From classic chocolate to hazelnut buttercream, these creamy, buttery recipes are ones you'll turn to again and again. Pastry chef Paola Velez makes this simple, sweet, and buttery frosting by ...

Let the cookies set up at room temperature on the baking rack for about 15 to 20 minutes or until they are dry to the touch.

Royal icing is the go-to stuff for picture-perfect sugar cookies, because it makes a neat, hard and glossy finish that professional bakers and home chefs love. This icing is rich and thick and may ...

When pressing the dough portions, slightly wet the bottom of a glass or measuring cup, then dip into a shallow bowl of sugar ...

Penuche frosting is an old-fashioned boiled frosting that's made with brown sugar, powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, and butter. The cooked frosting has a caramel-butterscotch flavor and a thick, ...

I like baking sugar cookies. I like eating sugar cookies. But I don’t really like decorating them. It always starts out as a great adventure — buying enough butter to put every Wisconsin dairy cow ...