Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sugar cookies to decorate. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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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 particular 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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sugar cookies to decorate:
- Prepare 1 lb butter
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/4 tsp almond extract
- Take 6 cups flour
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Steps 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.
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. 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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