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No-Egg Icing

Courses: Dessert, Sauces, Vegetarian

Recipe Ingredients

4 cups 792g / 27ozConfectioners' sugar
1/4 cup 82g / 2.9ozLight corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlVanilla extract
  Food coloring - (optional)

Recipe Instructions

Sift sugar into medium bowl. Add corn syrup, 3 tablespoons water and vanilla; and whisk to blend. Add more water 1 teaspoon at a time, until icing has a smooth, yet thick consistency. Tint with food coloring if desired.

Pipe decoratively onto cookies or thin with a little water and paint over cookies. (Keep icing covered with plastic wrap to prevent it from drying out.)

This recipe yields 1 1/3 cups.

Per Tablespoon: 100 Cal; 0g Prot; 0g Total Fat (0 Sat. Fat); 26g Carb.; 0mg Chol; 5mg Sod.; 0g Fiber.

Description:

"If you prefer to avoid eggs, this is a good choice for decorating cookies. It dries to a nice matte finish."

Source:
Vegetarian Times, September 2001

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