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Powdered Sugar Icing: Learn how to make a smooth, glossy powdered sugar icing in just minutes. Ideal for drizzling over cinnamon rolls, muffins or decorating holiday sugar cookies.

Basic sugar cookies can be transformed into something special with a simple drizzle of homemade icing. Our default is a powdered sugar icing, but you can use the cookie drizzling techniques below with ...

Yield: Enough for 24 cupcakes or 1 three-layer cake 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened 1 pound powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons milk, half-and-half or evaporated milk ...