Sugar Cookies & Frosting
I am going to be honest, I am not a huge sugar cookie person, or frosting person. I’ve always thought that sugar cookies were too sweet, same with frosting. But I like this cookie recipe because it isn’t too sweet.
What You’ll Need:
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup margarine
1 egg
3/4 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla (or your choice extract)
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups flour
Cream your butter and margarine. Add the egg, sugar and extract.
You can have some fun with the extracts. Almond is my favorite! But orange, coconut, and maple are also delicious! (Just make sure that your frosting or icing doesn’t clash with whatever extract you are using)
Slowly add the flour and baking powder to the creamed butter and sugar. Once everything is completely mixed, chill the cookie dough for one hour. After the dough has been chilled, roll out the dough. I like to roll the dough out on a cookie cookie sheet, but a countertop will work just as well. A nice secret to getting a shiny crust on your sugar cookies is to roll out the dough in powdered sugar instead of flour. The powdered sugar “glazes” when it is baked, giving the cookies a beautiful crust!
Roll out dough to the desired thickness. If you want thick sugar cookies, roll out the dough thick. If you want thin cookies, roll out the dough thin. (It’s pretty easy)
Bake cookies until the bottoms start to brown slightly. If you want the cookies crunchy, bake them longer, softer, shorter.
Once baked, cool on a cookie rack. If you leave the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet, the cookies will stick to the pan, and be near impossible to scrape off.
Frosting! Now that is an important part of Christmas cookies. I am terrible at spreading frosting! It is definitely not my area of expertise.
What you’ll need:
1/3 cup butter
1/4 cup cream (or milk)
4 cups sifted powdered sugar
2 teaspoons extract
Food coloring
Cream the butter. Slowly add the powdered sugar to the butter. After about a third of the sugar has been completely creamed into the butter, add about half of the cream. After about another third of the sugar is creamed into the butter, add the rest of the cream, and the extract. Finish up the last of the sugar. If desired, add food coloring.
Frost cooled cookies to your hearts desire!
Enjoy!
Here’s the link to my video on how to make
Sugar Cookies & Frosting
Amber Wells
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
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