Gingerbread Cookie Frosting

2/5 This recipe produced these wonders. I know. 😀 Beauties. (100%)! However: 1. Runny stuff for sure though. (Had to more than double the icing sugar volume and then leave it out half a day to harden). 2. Arguably not particularly pipe-able. 3. Gingerbread cookie decorating brought a lot of laughs. Highly recommend with fun, good crafty creative peoples for the holidays. 🙂

So runny

Great recipe! However, I’d you want a good gingerbread face piping consistency, DO NOT USE 1/4 cup of milk. I added it in gradually, so I would stop once it was at the right consistency, and I barely used 1/8th cup.

I would give this zero stars if I could. Ruined my day with how god awful this recipe is. Just terrible. Everyone saying that following the directions yields good frosting is wrong. This is NOT frosting. Even if you add a whole pound of sugar, it is a glaze at best. Not only that, it doesn’t taste good at all. Allison’s mother clearly did not know how to bake.

Ok, so I see a lot of the same stuff; “IT’S TOO RUNNY” or “I HAD TO ADD FIVE CUPS OF SUGAR TO THICKEN IT” and “IT WOULDN’T THICKEN”. Please, please, please just read the directions, and carefully. Don’t add all the milk. Do it teaspoon by teaspoon or tablespoon by tablespoon. You’re eventually going to find your perfect thickness. If it’s still too runny, try the refrigerator, and if you really need yo, add a bit of extra sugar, but not the whole bag. Also, add a bit of flavor if you feel like it. 🙂

I wouldnt use this recipe i tried making icing for my cookies and the icing wouldt firm up at the listed quatitys its runny and doesnt harden i added extra sugar after and it still doesnt harden and is still runny

It was so thin and really runny. Don’t even try this.

Worked really well. We divided and made several colors. (Got ahead of the directions regarding the milk, but that was my fault. I knew better…)

Went perfectly with my gingerbread cookies but was a little too funny and sweet.

I made this last night. the recipe is so runny. basically watery icing. Not a fan.

First time my icing worked! But thanks to all the other commentators as their experiences and debates helped me get it right.

This frosting is nice since it drys and you can stack the cookies and they won’t smudge

If you do add the 1/4 cup of milk you

Probably only 1/10 cups of milk but beside that good,simple, easy frosting

followed the driections. had to add more sugar and it still came out way to runny. I didn’t care for this reciepe, at all

I tried to make this and I was looking for more of a iicing not a glaze. I kept adding sugar but it never thickened up and I didn’t even add all of the milk. So yea I think next I will just buy the prepackaged icing from the store for my gingerbread men.

It was a great frosting, but I read it was to runny so I use 1 cup of confederate sugar and half of 1/4 a cup of milk, then but it in the refrigerator for a little bit to make it thicker.

I was making my frosting and I used the directions but it wasn’t even a glase thickness.

The recipe is just fine if you follow the directions.

It was good, but the liquid needs to be reduced a lot for decorating.

My cookies originally were bland, so I wanted to frost them. I added crushed ginger, nutmeg, pumpkin spice, and vanilla. I didn’t measure out anything, I just kind of eyeballed it. Taste tested it along the way. Made a huge difference. The cookies are irresistible.