How to Make Sugar Free Icing for Cookies

Submitted by littlebitesofbeauty

"When I started thinking about how to make sugar free icing for cookies, I thought it was pretty impossible. Honey doesn’t solidify like that, and with stevia you can’t make a crunchy icing for sure. I had some cookies that I purposely kept very low in sweetness because I wanted to decorate them with a colorful icing… And since sugar was out of question, I had to come up with a perfect replacement… Sugar Free Icing For Cookies After carefully inspecting my sugar free pantry, erythritol seemed to be the key!! Erythritol is a sugar alcohol that despite having no calories retains 70% of the sweetness of sugar and it has the same exact consistency! It crystallize beautifully and it allows you to create a crunchy icing to add flavor to your cookies! erythritol The quantities you’ll find in this sugar free icing recipe are purposely small because they are meant for dividing the glaze into three different flavors… and I only had 11 cookies to glaze! If you need to make more take a look at the video and you’ll see how easy it is to adjust the quantities according to the number of cookies you need your sugar free icing for. shutterstock"

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Yields: 2 5
• Serves: 2

ingredients

• 1⁄4 teaspoon coconut oil
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons erythritol
• 1⁄4 teaspoon turmeric
• 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
• 1 teaspoon orange juice
• 1⁄4 teaspoon coconut oil
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons erythritol
• 1 teaspoon dandelion coffee
• 1⁄8 teaspoon instant coffee powder
• 1 teaspoon water
• 1⁄4 teaspoon coconut oil
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons erythritol
• 1⁄4 teaspoon matcha green tea
• 1 teaspoon coconut milk or 1 teaspoon water

directions

1. Heat up the coconut oil in a non stick pan.
2. Pour in the erythritol and let it cook for ½ a minute. Add in the different flavors according to what kind of icing you are making. Lastly, add in the liquid ingredients (orange juice, water or coconut milk) and let it cook until it to starts to bubble.
3. Let the sugar free icing bubble for a couple of minutes. The longer you leave it on the stove the more caramelized it becomes.
4. Take your icing off the stove and, before you pour it over your cookies, wait a few seconds until it stops to bubble and goes back to being liquid.