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Vanilla Icing Glaze is the perfect icing to frost your cookies, or to drizzle over bundt cakes, scones, cinnamon rolls, or donuts. With just a handful of ingredients and a few simple steps, you can create a dessert glaze that is the perfect balance between flavor, consistency, and pretty results.
Easy Icing for Desserts
When you want to make the yummy treats you make even more special, a simple vanilla icing glaze can do the trick. This quick icing recipe gives your desserts a sweet finishing touch.
Customize Icing Flavor
- This Vanilla Icing Glaze is sweet and has a nice vanilla flavor. What is really nice about this recipe is that you can make it in different flavors, not just a vanilla glaze!
- To make this icing glaze a different flavor, such as lemon, orange, maple, almond, peppermint, etc. Just switch out the vanilla for your favorite extract or flavoring.
- You may want to test it with a smaller amount, then add more as desired, as extracts are potent, and a little can go a long way.
Use Vanilla Icing Glaze on cookies, scones, donuts, bundt cakes, cinnamon rolls, birthday cakes, sweet breads (banana, chocolate, zucchini, etc.), or any sweet treat you like!
This icing glaze sets up solid, but not too hard. I think the texture is really nice to bite into.
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Vanilla Icing Glaze
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
- 1 Tablespoon Corn Syrup
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 Tablespoons Milk (or more to get desired consistency)
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
- 1 ½ cups Confectioners Sugar (powdered sugar)
Instructions
- In a medium microwave safe bowl, add the butter, corn syrup, vanilla, milk, and salt. Microwave for 15 seconds, stir, and microwave another 10 seconds, if needed, to melt butter, and stir to combine.
- Stir in the confectioners sugar until dissolved. Add more milk if too thick. Add more powdered sugar if too thin.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Made snowflake-shaped sugar cookies and this icing drizzled beautifully!
I used agave instead of corn syrup, my preference, and the icing was a beautiful white.
The icing also held the glitter sprinkles well.
So many compliments,… Win, win!
I have been furloughed from work so I have taken this opportunity to try new recipes. I must say this icing was a success in my home! Usually I have to make several attempts to get it right but this was simple and I achieved it on the first attempt! Thank you for sharing!
I’m looking for a frosting that drys crunchy.Would this work?
I don’t know if is crunchy, but it does dry solid.
Would you recommend this icing for coating petit fours?
Yes, this would be nice for them as it dries.
My icing keeps turning clear (instead of white) when I pour it on. What am I doing wrong?
Hmmm, I would try adding more powdered sugar, or mix it longer with a whisk. Please let me know if this helps! Also, this is not a completely white icing, but it shouldn’t be clear either.
I tried the icing also, and it’s almost clear too. In your picture your icing is a thick white. What’s the trick?
I guess I let it thicken a bit before frosting. You could try adding a little more powdered sugar to make it a bit thicker.
This glaze was just what I needed for my bundt cake. It’s the perfect consistency. I used a little more milk, about a teaspoon, to make it pretty thin. Thanks for the recipe!