Bored of topping your cookies with unimaginative store-bought frosting? Well, you're in luck! It's surprisingly easy to ...

4. Place the iced cookie on a cooling rack to dry for 24 hours. The cookies are dry when the surface is completely smooth, dry and resists smudging when touched.

A batch of tasty cookies can truly brighten the day, even more so when you've taken care to decorate them in a way that makes them look like marble.

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After baking, allow cookies to cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then move them to wire rack to cool completely. When cool, frost as desired with royal icing.

If you want to decorate your cookies like ours here, when you’re preparing this icing, use the “6-second pull test” to determine if it is the correct consistency. The test is simple: Pull a ...

2-1/2 cups (12-1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour 3/4 cup (5-1/4 ounces) superfine sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and softened 1 ounce cream cheese, softened ...

By Recipe courtesy of Karen Mitchell and Sarah Mitchell Hansen, 'The Model Bakery Cookbook' , (Chronicle Books, 2013) PUBLISHED: December 9, 2013 at 6:59 a.m. Shiny Cookie Icing Makes about 2 ¼ cups ...

Garten’s frosting isn’t really frosting or icing. No, it’s neither. The longtime Barefoot Contessa host refers to it as something else. She calls it Cookie Glaze, according to Food Network.