Allergies: Celiac friendly. 
Ingredients

• ½ cup of Earth Balance Shortening
• ½ cup of Earth Balance Vegany Butter Stick (Or Soy Free Buttery Stick)
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
• 4 cups of Confectioners Sugar (should be sifted if pipetting)
• 2 Tbsp. Almond Milk (or hemp or coconut or ___ milk that meets your allergy needs)
• Food Dye (if desired)

Procedure

1. Cream the Earth Balance shortening and vegany butter in a mixer.
2. Add vanilla and mix.
3. Gradually add the sugar, beating well on a medium speed. You’ll need to scrape the bowl often.
4. Add the almond milk and beet at a high speed until light and fluffy!
5. If necessary, add in food dye until your frosting is the desired color!

Tips and Tricks

• For this chocolatey version, I added cocoa powder at the end and then a dab more of my dairy free milk. This bit is easy because you’ll know the desired consistency from Step #4.
• If you don’t have allergies, this is still our family’s favorite recipe, but you can use regular butter and margarine. 🙂

Allergies: Celiac friendly. Free of Top 8 Allergens. Contains Corn
Ingredients

• 

  4 cups of Confectioners Sugar (should be sifted if pipetting)

• 6 tsp. water
• ¼+ cup Corn Syrup
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• Food Dye (if desired)

Procedure

1. Mix the confectioners sugar and water until a consistent texture. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl!
2. Add in the corn syrup and vanilla, and mix. This will be super gooey, so you’ve been forewarned.
3. Next, add in any food dye to reach desired consistency. I recommend gelled to maintain the texture, but liquid works fine too.
4. Then, if it still seems too thick for piping you can add more corn syrup. (Do NOT add more water.)

To Make Designs

You’ll need waxed paper, pipetting bag, and tips.

1. You may want to divide up the frosting and color it separately.
2. Use a pipetting bag to draw the outline on the wax paper. (It helps to have a copy of your design under the wax paper, so you just have to trace.) Give it some time to harden, at least 10 minutes. (It doesn’t matter if you leave it for longer though, you can wait up to a few hours.)
3. Fill in your design!
4. Wait overnight.
5. Peel off, and there you have it, ta da! (Bigger designs obviously take longer, but these spider legs will be ready!)

Tips and Tricks

• This is a sticky, messy, and gooey recipe, so if you can have meringue, I do recommend a traditional royal icing. But, it does do the trick for wax paper designs, AND tastes 10 times better than pectin!
• If it’s too gooey to scoop out, use an ice cream scoop to the frosting into your pipette bag.
• This dries at a much slower pace than your typical royal icing.
• If you’re not vegan, you don’t need to measure the 4 cups, just use a Domino’s box! Here is a list of vegan friendly powdered sugars.

*Quantities adapted from a Food.Com recipe.