Question about icing.

[Baitball Blogger]

Just made some butt-kicking Valentine cookies and it just dawned on me that I may have made a mistake with the icing. Ingredients are

1 cup confectioner sugar
2 teaspoon milk
2 teaspoon cornsyrup
1/4 tsp almond extract.

Cookies taste delicious, but it occurred to me that I shouldn't have used that recipe because I was planning to mail them to people, and the milk now makes the cookie perishable.

Anyone have experience with this?

This is where I got the recipe:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/11587/sugar-cookie-icing/

[Kali]

1. the sugar will take care of that tiny amount of milk

sugar is a preservative and the milk will lose its moisture, all that will be left is a tiny bit of solids. nothing to worry about.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

2. Yep...

I'm with Kali. It's all good!

[Warpy]

3. Offhand, I'd say there's not enough milk in it to spoil

and sugar itself is a preservative. In addition, it's winter, the cookies will stay cool.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. thanks everyone!

My hours of work are not wasted.

[Tab]

5. The safest route to go

is to mail a batch to me, and I will subject them to rigorous safety tests (mainly eating them all and noting if they make me sick or not). PM me for my address. If they don't go bad, it might be a good idea to send a batch every few weeks anyway as ongoing quality checks.

Free service to you (shipping aside).

I'm surprised other C&B forum denizens don't offer that service, but at least you have one place to turn to for assurance.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. As it so happens, I have an extra dozen to dispose of.

If mailing wasn't so costly, I would take you up on your selfless offer.