Frosting Sugar Cookies with our family is one of the holiday traditions that I have years of memories tied to. Take it from us, we’ve tested so many variations of frosting and have all declared this recipe the Best Sugar Cookie Frosting because it tastes delicious, it’s easy to work with and it hardens up so the cookies can be packaged as gifts or stored. When I was a kid we would frost the cookies with butter knives and bowls of frosting, remember how hard it was to create designs with butter knives. Before Aaron and I had kids my mother-in-law gifted us a set of frosting bottles. Hello Game Changer! We had the best time decorating cookies with family and then our own kids got older and were able to start frosting cookies with us. This is the why behind all the work of baking cookies, mixing up frosting and cleaning up all of the messes - Memories. So many sweet and funny memories together. It’s why we’re so happy to give you our favorite sugar cookie frosting recipe. It really is the BEST! It tastes just like the kind our grandparents made and with the little tweaks we’ve given the measurements it works great in frosting bottles as well.

First Our Essential Baking Tools:

Frosting Bottles + Tips - here’s the link to the ones we love, we put both the bottles and tips in our Baking Supplies List on Amazon
Candy Thermometer - here’s the link to the spatula/thermometer that we LOVE. If you’re making fudge, peanut brittle or caramel this season, you’ll need this!!
If you don’t already have some tried and true family recipes, snag our ECookBook! We filled it with all of our most favorite recipes, like the sugar cookies that go with this frosting.
Some other items we love having on hand : parchment paper, long toothpicks (or skewers!) for dipping chocolates, squeeze bottle gel food coloring, cooling wracks, cookie spatula, rubber spatulas for scraping bowls. You can find all of our favorite baking tools Here in our Amazon Baking List.

Some extra cookie tips:

don’t forget to chill your sugar cookie dough! click here for the video on why
tips on how to roll out your cookies, how we store our cookies and frosting! click here for these videos from instagram.

We are so excited to be baking along with you, be sure to follow along with all the fun @kellywelk on instagram and for longer cooking class style videos be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel!

The BEST Sugar Cookie Frosting - just like Aunt Violet used to make

8 Tablespoons melted Butter
3/4 cup warmed Milk
2 teaspoons Vanilla
2 pounds Powdered Sugar
Food Coloring Color of your choice

In a medium bowl add the melted butter, warm milk and vanilla, then add in the powdered sugar. Mix on low until the powdered sugar is incorporated. Once it’s mixed in, turn the beaters up to high and whip the frosting for a minute to make it light and airy.

The frosting will be thinner when the ingredients are all warm. Once the butter comes back to room temperature it will thicken up. Pour the frosting into separate bowls to add food coloring, then pour into your frosting bottles before it thickens.

If the frosting has gotten too thick and hard to squeeze out of the bottles, take the tops off of the bottle and warm it in the microwave for 3-5 seconds. Seriously, do not leave it in for longer! It only takes a few seconds to soften it to a consistency that is easy to frost with.

Have so much fun filling your table with trays of cookies, bottles of frosting, sprinkles and best of all memories with your family and friends!