Sugar cookies to decorate
Sugar cookies to decorate

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sugar cookies to decorate. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

For decorated cookies, you'll want to use a sugar cookie recipe that more resembles a shortbread than a soft, chewy cookie. The dough shouldn't be so short that it crumbles and easily falls apart, but it should be solid enough to hold its shape. Our Easy Sugar Cookies recipe uses equal parts sugar and butter at its base.

Sugar cookies to decorate is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Sugar cookies to decorate is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Sugar cookies to decorate:
  1. Take 1 lb butter
  2. Make ready 2 cups sugar
  3. Make ready 2 eggs
  4. Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
  5. Make ready 1/4 tsp almond extract
  6. Make ready 6 cups flour

And dipping cookies is just as easy as it sounds: Prep a thin royal icing, place it in a shallow bowl, then dip the top of your cutout cookies into the icing—done! To decorate sugar cookies, first make icing by mixing together butter, vanilla extract, milk, and powdered sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer. If you want your icing to be different colors, separate it into several bowls and add a few drops of food coloring to each. Once your icing is ready, spoon each color into a separate plastic.

Steps to make Sugar cookies to decorate:
  1. Using a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until JUST combined.
  2. Add eggs one at a time, combining in between each addition. Mix in vanilla extract and almond extract.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.)
  6. 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 sugar cookies always seems like a good idea, but they never quite turn out like the ones baked by the professionals. Even if you stick to the recipe you've been baking for decades, there are a handful of tips to keep in mind to make sure your cookies don't crumble. Decorating sugar cookies was a holiday tradition for my family growing up. My mom is not a baker but every Christmas she'd get things ready to make Christmas cookies with my brother and I. These caramel clusters were made very year, along with cutout sugar cookies.

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