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What's your best cookie recipes for using cookie cutters and icings?
- Thread starter kendall
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mariadnoca
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Sugar Cookies are my personal favorite
Sugar Cookies are my all time favorite for cut out cookies. I got this recipe off of the Brown Bag Art cookie molds but use for cutout cookies. It produces a softer cookie than the ones mom used to make and I always get compliments on their taste. I just kneed a bit of four in if the dough is too sticky to rollout - but not too much.
1/2c softened butter
3/4c sugar
1 “medium” or “large” egg (not extra large or jumbo)
1T milk or cream
2c flour
1/4t salt
1/4t nutmeg (or cinnamon)
Thoroughly cream butter. Add sugar and mix till fluffy. Beat in the egg and then the milk. In a separate bowl mix together all dry ingredients. Stir them into the butter. Knead the dough for just a minute. Chill the dough, then rollout and use for cutout cookies. Bake at 350ºF for 10-12 minutes or until edges brown. Yield: 5-8 extra large cookies depending on size of cookie.
When cool, ice with favorite frosting and top with sprinkles/decorations.
A Note on Icing: I like to use almond extract in my icing rather than vanilla as I think it has a better contrast of flavor with the cookie -- and it's what mom always used so for me, it's a homegrown favorite. smileys/smile.gif
Sugar Cookies are my all time favorite for cut out cookies. I got this recipe off of the Brown Bag Art cookie molds but use for cutout cookies. It produces a softer cookie than the ones mom used to make and I always get compliments on their taste. I just kneed a bit of four in if the dough is too sticky to rollout - but not too much.
1/2c softened butter
3/4c sugar
1 “medium” or “large” egg (not extra large or jumbo)
1T milk or cream
2c flour
1/4t salt
1/4t nutmeg (or cinnamon)
Thoroughly cream butter. Add sugar and mix till fluffy. Beat in the egg and then the milk. In a separate bowl mix together all dry ingredients. Stir them into the butter. Knead the dough for just a minute. Chill the dough, then rollout and use for cutout cookies. Bake at 350ºF for 10-12 minutes or until edges brown. Yield: 5-8 extra large cookies depending on size of cookie.
When cool, ice with favorite frosting and top with sprinkles/decorations.
A Note on Icing: I like to use almond extract in my icing rather than vanilla as I think it has a better contrast of flavor with the cookie -- and it's what mom always used so for me, it's a homegrown favorite. smileys/smile.gif
REC Lazy Browned Butter Cookies
Yield: Makes about 6 dozen cookies
1-1/2cups (3 sticks) butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp almond extract
food coloring, optional
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cake flour
1/4 tsp salt
Heat butter in heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring frequently until melted and light amber in color; transfer to large bowl. Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until solid. Let butter stand at room temperature about 15 minutes to soften before completing recipe.
Preheat oven to 350F. Beat browned butter, granulated sugar, and powdered sugar in large bowl with electric mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add egg yolk, vanilla and almond extract; beat until well-blended (add a couple of drops of food coloring at this point if desired).
Combine remaining dry ingredients in small bowl and add to butter mixture; beat until combined.
Roll into 3/4-inch balls and press flat onto ungreased cookie sheets about an inch apart. Bake at 350F for 10 minutes or until just lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes on cookie sheets; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Frost as desired - the simpler the better - white with a few red and green sprinkles, pale green with crushed walnuts, pink with a red decorating sugar and a cinnamon heart, etc.
Yield: Makes about 6 dozen cookies
1-1/2cups (3 sticks) butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp almond extract
food coloring, optional
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cake flour
1/4 tsp salt
Heat butter in heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring frequently until melted and light amber in color; transfer to large bowl. Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until solid. Let butter stand at room temperature about 15 minutes to soften before completing recipe.
Preheat oven to 350F. Beat browned butter, granulated sugar, and powdered sugar in large bowl with electric mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add egg yolk, vanilla and almond extract; beat until well-blended (add a couple of drops of food coloring at this point if desired).
Combine remaining dry ingredients in small bowl and add to butter mixture; beat until combined.
Roll into 3/4-inch balls and press flat onto ungreased cookie sheets about an inch apart. Bake at 350F for 10 minutes or until just lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes on cookie sheets; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Frost as desired - the simpler the better - white with a few red and green sprinkles, pale green with crushed walnuts, pink with a red decorating sugar and a cinnamon heart, etc.
It would be hard to beat Penny's Rolled Sugar Cookies with the Sugar Baby Frosting
It's in T&T and holds it's shape nicely for cut out cookies. The icing isn't that awful royal icing stuff that threatens to break your teeth but sets up nicely for bagging.
http://eat.at/swap/forum8/32_Penny’s_Rolled_SugarCookies
It's in T&T and holds it's shape nicely for cut out cookies. The icing isn't that awful royal icing stuff that threatens to break your teeth but sets up nicely for bagging.
http://eat.at/swap/forum8/32_Penny’s_Rolled_SugarCookies
sugar cookie consensus from Kendall...
thought I'd move this up here and put it in Great Threads so we can find it later
http://eat.at/swap/forum8/32_Penny’s_Rolled_SugarCookies
thought I'd move this up here and put it in Great Threads so we can find it later
http://eat.at/swap/forum8/32_Penny’s_Rolled_SugarCookies
another vote and variation of Penny's Rolled Sugar Cookies
http://eat.at/swap/forum1/140921_REC__Pennys_Rolled_Sugar_Cookies_+_Sugar_Baby_Frosting
http://eat.at/swap/forum1/140921_REC__Pennys_Rolled_Sugar_Cookies_+_Sugar_Baby_Frosting
Thanks you! I got busy, and then sick, then forgot. We had so much fun, we used 2 different recipes.
I told her next year that she would graduate to a gingerbread house, she said no thanks, and she really didn't realize how much work it was. But she learned a whole bunch, and I thank you all.
I told her next year that she would graduate to a gingerbread house, she said no thanks, and she really didn't realize how much work it was. But she learned a whole bunch, and I thank you all.