Vanilla Icing (Vanilla Glaze)
This homemade vanilla icing recipe is easy to make in under 5 minutes with only 3 ingredients. It hardens well with a beautiful shine, and tastes delicious on top of donuts, cookies, cakes, etc.
Servings: 16 Servings
Cost: $2
Ingredients
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 to 3 ½ tablespoons whole milk*
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Put powdered sugar, milk and vanilla in a medium bowl.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Immediately drizzle over your desired baked goods (cake, cookies, donuts etc).
- Or, dip the baked goods into glaze in a shallow bowl, or spread it on top of your favorite desserts.
- Let sit at room temperature until hardened (about 60 minutes). Or, let harden in the refrigerator.
- Serve at room temperature or slightly chilled.
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Notes
*Start with 3 Tablespoons increase if you want a thinner glaze.
Ingredient Notes/Substitutions
- Powdered sugar. You can make your own refined sugar free version, or just make your own by blending together 1 cup of granulated sugar with 1 Tablespoon cornstarch.
- Whole milk. heavy cream or half and half are great substitutes. For a dairy-free vanilla glaze, use coconut milk.
- Pure vanilla extract. use a high quality variety for the best results. To add additional flavor extracts, reduce the amount of vanilla by ¼ teaspoon, and add ¼ teaspoon of your desired extract such as lemon, mint, almond, etc.
- Cookies. This glaze is delicious on top of iced oatmeal cookies, lemon cookies, and sugar cookies.
- Cake. We love this on top of Vanilla bundt cake and chocolate bundt cake.
- Also try it on raspberry bars, cherry bars, chocolate chip scones (or regular scones), cinnamon rolls, etc.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Tablespoon | Calories: 61kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 0.1g | Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.004g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Cholesterol: 0.4mg | Sodium: 2mg | Potassium: 6mg | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 5IU | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 0.01mg