Colored Brushable Icing for Hanukkah Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 6 1/2 teaspoons milk
- 2 ½ teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Food coloring
- Blue, white, silver, or gold sprinkles and dragées (optional)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, sift icing sugar and add in milk and lemon juice. Mix until lump free and your icing reaches the consistency of honey. If it's too loose and runny, stir in more sifted icing sugar (add 1 tablespoon at a time). If it's too thick, add a teaspoon of milk until you get that honey-like consistency.
- Portion the icing out into a few bowls and mix a few drops of food coloring into each bowl until you reach the desired shades. For these cookies, I used white, two different shades of blue, and yellow for the menorah lights. Experiment with different colors and shades that appeal to you.
- Use clean, small craft paintbrushes to decorate your cookies. I also used a toothpick to keep the line work neat (like on the menorah cookies).
Notes
TIP: Use one paintbrush per icing color to avoid mixing up the shades. Also, let each layer or coat of icing dry — about 15 minutes between each coat — so they don't swirl or blend into one another.