mmm, cookies...
I'm running very late this year on my Valentine's Day cookie baking. Time just gets away from me sometimes, okay, a lot of the time. But anyway, I made a batch last night for Logan to take to class with him today and will make a batch tonight for the family.
I use paste (gel) food coloring to dye my icing and it is fantastic...except for the wretched stains it leaves on my fingers (and tongue and dish rags)!
katie, it's a flickr pic.
I use an old Wilton Cookie Supply recipe and a tweaked royal icing recipe from Martha Stewart (that I can't find links to anymore).
I love the sugar cookie recipe because you don't have to chill the dough. Now that I have my marble pastry slab and marble rolling pin from my Patsy Grandma, the recipe is REALLY a dream to work with.
Sugar Cookies
1 C butter (I use room temperature butter)
1 C granulated sugar
1 egg
1 t vanilla (I usually double it)
2 t baking powder
3 C all-purpose flour
Pre-heat oven to 400°.
Cream butter and sugar (until light and fluffy).
Add egg and vanilla.
Add flour and baking powder (I sift mine into a bowl and incorporate it into the butter mixture a third at a time).
Divide into two balls (I divide into four...I find it easier to roll out smaller balls of dough). Roll to 1/8 inch thickness (I roll mine to 1/4 inch thickness and I use two quarter inch dowel rods to keep the dough even).
Bake 6-8 minutes or until golden brown (I bake mine anywhere from eight minutes to fifteen depending on the size of my cookies).
The recipe yield varies depending on the size of your cookie cutter. Figure it will make three dozen three inch-ish cookies or 18 five to six inch cookies. I made a dozen (plus four) five inch cookies and two and a half dozen small cookies this last batch.
Royal Icing
5 T meringue powder
3/4 C water (I use slightly less than a cup of lemon juice instead)
juice of one lemon
4 C powdered sugar (I sift it)
Divide and add food coloring as desired.
The recipe yields a TON of icing. Definitely enough to decorate at least two batches of cookies, possibly three.
Once you're done decorating your cookies and they've had sufficient time to harden (over night is best), throw a handful into a cellophane bag, slap a cute tag on some ribbon and tie it up. Viola, now you have a very cute, very tasty valentine treat!
I use paste (gel) food coloring to dye my icing and it is fantastic...except for the wretched stains it leaves on my fingers (and tongue and dish rags)!
katie, it's a flickr pic.
I use an old Wilton Cookie Supply recipe and a tweaked royal icing recipe from Martha Stewart (that I can't find links to anymore).
I love the sugar cookie recipe because you don't have to chill the dough. Now that I have my marble pastry slab and marble rolling pin from my Patsy Grandma, the recipe is REALLY a dream to work with.
Sugar Cookies
1 C butter (I use room temperature butter)
1 C granulated sugar
1 egg
1 t vanilla (I usually double it)
2 t baking powder
3 C all-purpose flour
Pre-heat oven to 400°.
Cream butter and sugar (until light and fluffy).
Add egg and vanilla.
Add flour and baking powder (I sift mine into a bowl and incorporate it into the butter mixture a third at a time).
Divide into two balls (I divide into four...I find it easier to roll out smaller balls of dough). Roll to 1/8 inch thickness (I roll mine to 1/4 inch thickness and I use two quarter inch dowel rods to keep the dough even).
Bake 6-8 minutes or until golden brown (I bake mine anywhere from eight minutes to fifteen depending on the size of my cookies).
The recipe yield varies depending on the size of your cookie cutter. Figure it will make three dozen three inch-ish cookies or 18 five to six inch cookies. I made a dozen (plus four) five inch cookies and two and a half dozen small cookies this last batch.
Royal Icing
5 T meringue powder
3/4 C water (I use slightly less than a cup of lemon juice instead)
juice of one lemon
4 C powdered sugar (I sift it)
Divide and add food coloring as desired.
The recipe yields a TON of icing. Definitely enough to decorate at least two batches of cookies, possibly three.
Once you're done decorating your cookies and they've had sufficient time to harden (over night is best), throw a handful into a cellophane bag, slap a cute tag on some ribbon and tie it up. Viola, now you have a very cute, very tasty valentine treat!
posted by Amy at 10:00 AM
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