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For The Cookie Dough For Decorating The Cookies
For The Cookie Dough For Decorating The Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup granulated sugar Colored sugars of your choice
2 large eggs
1 Make the cookie dough: Place the but-
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract ter and granulated sugar in a large bowl
Directions:
and, using an electric mixer on medium
3 cups all-purpose flour
speed, beat until light and fluffy, 1 to 2
SWEET ENDINGS • 307
For the Young Artist
Little ones love sugar cookies, and often the mixture among several small cups. Tint each
easiest way to include children in the baking cup with a few drops of a different liquid food
process is to let them design the toppings. It’s coloring. Using small, clean, new paintbrushes,
easy to set out a bowl of sprinkles for kids to paint the unbaked cookies. If the egg yolk paint
dust over the top before the cookies go into becomes too thick, add a little water. Then, bake
the oven. But if you’d like to change things up the cookies.
a bit, try these two fun alternatives. The edible
FOR CONFECTIONERS’ SUGAR GLAZE:
egg yolk paint is great for last-minute cookies,
Combine 1 cup of sifted confectioners’ sugar
whereas the confectioners’ sugar glaze is best
and 1 to 2 tablespoons of warm low-fat milk,
when you have time to let the cookies rest so the
until you achieve the desired consistency. Tint
glaze can harden.
the frosting, if desired, with a few drops of food
FOR EDIBLE PAINT (ALIAS PAINTBRUSH coloring. You can also add a dash of almond fla-
COOKIES): Mix 2 egg yolks and ½ teaspoon voring. If the frosting gets too runny, add more
of water in a small bowl. Divide the egg yolk confectioners’ sugar.
minutes. Add the eggs and vanilla and there is enough room in your refrig-
beat well. Beat in the flour on low speed erator, chill the cookies on the baking
until just combined. Cover the bowl and sheets for about 5 minutes before bak-
refrigerate the cookie dough at least ing. This helps cookies retain their
1 hour, preferably overnight. shape if you’ve overworked the dough
or the kitchen is hot.
2 Place a rack in the center of the oven
and preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 4 Decorate the cookies: If you are using
cookie sheet with parchment paper or colored sugars, brush the cookies with a
leave ungreased. little egg white before sprinkling on the
colored sugar. If you would like to add
3 Working with a little of the dough at
an edible paint (see box), do so now. If
a time, roll it out on a floured surface
you are going to frost the cookies with
Ingredients:
1 cup granulated sugar Colored sugars of your choice
2 large eggs
1 Make the cookie dough: Place the but-
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract ter and granulated sugar in a large bowl
Directions:
and, using an electric mixer on medium
3 cups all-purpose flour
speed, beat until light and fluffy, 1 to 2
SWEET ENDINGS • 307
For the Young Artist
Little ones love sugar cookies, and often the mixture among several small cups. Tint each
easiest way to include children in the baking cup with a few drops of a different liquid food
process is to let them design the toppings. It’s coloring. Using small, clean, new paintbrushes,
easy to set out a bowl of sprinkles for kids to paint the unbaked cookies. If the egg yolk paint
dust over the top before the cookies go into becomes too thick, add a little water. Then, bake
the oven. But if you’d like to change things up the cookies.
a bit, try these two fun alternatives. The edible
FOR CONFECTIONERS’ SUGAR GLAZE:
egg yolk paint is great for last-minute cookies,
Combine 1 cup of sifted confectioners’ sugar
whereas the confectioners’ sugar glaze is best
and 1 to 2 tablespoons of warm low-fat milk,
when you have time to let the cookies rest so the
until you achieve the desired consistency. Tint
glaze can harden.
the frosting, if desired, with a few drops of food
FOR EDIBLE PAINT (ALIAS PAINTBRUSH coloring. You can also add a dash of almond fla-
COOKIES): Mix 2 egg yolks and ½ teaspoon voring. If the frosting gets too runny, add more
of water in a small bowl. Divide the egg yolk confectioners’ sugar.
minutes. Add the eggs and vanilla and there is enough room in your refrig-
beat well. Beat in the flour on low speed erator, chill the cookies on the baking
until just combined. Cover the bowl and sheets for about 5 minutes before bak-
refrigerate the cookie dough at least ing. This helps cookies retain their
1 hour, preferably overnight. shape if you’ve overworked the dough
or the kitchen is hot.
2 Place a rack in the center of the oven
and preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 4 Decorate the cookies: If you are using
cookie sheet with parchment paper or colored sugars, brush the cookies with a
leave ungreased. little egg white before sprinkling on the
colored sugar. If you would like to add
3 Working with a little of the dough at
an edible paint (see box), do so now. If
a time, roll it out on a floured surface
you are going to frost the cookies with
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