Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sugar cookies to decorate. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Sugar cookies to decorate is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Sugar cookies to decorate is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Before we begin decorating, let's review my sugar cookie recipe. This recipe, pictured below as adorable little hearts, have slightly crisp edges and a nice flat surface. Sugar cookies are a delicious treat; with a little effort you can make them both tasty and beautiful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook sugar cookies to decorate using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sugar cookies to decorate:
- Make ready 1 lb butter
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1/4 tsp almond extract
- Take 6 cups flour
Many cookiers prefer cookies a quarter inch thick, which you can achieve with special rings for the. Place half of the thinned icing in a resealable plastic bag and tint the rest with red and/or green gel food coloring. Using a small offset spatula or the back of a spoon, spread the icing to cover the cookie. Decorate with the colored icing while the white icing is still wet.
Instructions to make Sugar cookies to decorate:
- Using a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until JUST combined.
- Add eggs one at a time, combining in between each addition. Mix in vanilla extract and almond extract.
- Add flour two cups at a time mixing on slow speed (you can cover the bowl with a tea towel to avoid flour spills) The dough will be soft and should not be too sticky to the touch.
- Roll out the dough in one cup portions to be about 1/4” thick. I like to freeze the dough at this point to make cutting the cookies easier. Freeze the rolled dough for 5-10 minutes, depending on your climate.
- Cut the cookies into your desired shape and place onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Space these cookies at least an inch apart. (They don’t have baking powder or baking soda but they do spread a tiny bit.)
- Bake cookies for 9-12 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Once baked, let cookies cool on the pan for 5-10 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool.
Decorating cutout sugar cookies with royal icing has become super fun for me. The first couple of times it drove me crazy, but now I love it. Last week I promised that I'd have a video, tutorial and all the info you need to learn How to Decorate Cookies with Royal Icing and today is the day! Much like cake decorating, cookie decorating is a form of edible art. The canvas may be quite small, but the results are often breathtaking.
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