I am looking for a frosting I can use for cookies. I know there is the royal icing, but that dries hard. Custoner would like to stay away from that if we can. She is dead set against fondant. Any ideas? Is there a frosting or icing that I could use? One that will let me stack or lean the cookies against themselves?




And another thing....is there a difference between frosting and icing? Or is where your from is how you say it type of thing? Meaningless question, sorry, had to throw it in there.

I think it's about where you're from! Anyhow the buttercream icing for frozen transfers recipe on here is good and not overly sweet and it crusts super well I would think you could shingle the cookies and the frosting would be ok!

You can use Royal Icing with a little bit of corn syrup (that keeps it from going completely hard), or you can use rolled buttercream (it doesn't go completely hard but overnight it can be stacked).

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1983-Antonia74-Royal-Icing.html
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http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1603-Rolled-Buttercream-Icing-Recipe.html