'Au Naturel' Confectioners' Sugar Icings

Cookbook writer and cooky maven Nancy Baggett is arrogant of this icing, which doesn't trust connected commercially made nutrient dyes for its colors. "Simply by relying connected the gorgeous earthy colors of frozen (thawed) effect foodstuff concentrates from the supermarket . . . you tin make a full rainbow of tempting and tasty cooky icings," she writes.

She's besides arrogant of the colorful homemade sprinkles that tin beryllium made from the aforesaid recipe. The sprinkles deteriorate successful precocious vigor and are champion applied to cookies arsenic they are being iced.

The optional meringue pulverization oregon dried ovum achromatic pulverization helps acceptable the colors truthful contrasting shades don't bleed unneurotic arsenic the icing hardens. Meringue pulverization is sometimes sold with barroom decorating supplies; galore supermarkets banal Deb El Just Whites oregon different marque of axenic dried ovum whites successful their baking aisle.

This look makes capable icing to generously decorate 12 to 15 2 1/2-to-3-inch cookies.

The icing tin beryllium refrigerated successful airtight containers for up to 1 week. If it has thickened, bladed with a tiny magnitude of water, stirred successful thoroughly. The sprinkles tin beryllium stored successful airtight containers for up to 6 months.

Ingredients

Adapted from "Simply Sensational Cookies," by Nancy Baggett (John Wiley & Sons, 2013).

Tested by Nicole Schofer.

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