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Selasa, 04 Februari 2014

Halloween Sugar Cookies with Eggless Royal Icing

No tricks, just treats!!!!! Happy Halloween

Halloween is an annual feast usually celebrated on October 31 which includes activities like trick-or-treats, costume parties, carving pumpkins, playing and telling scary & horror stories.

To treat this Halloween holiday I made these Sugar Cookies. These cookies are full of flavor, fun to decorate and make a spooktacular display at Halloween parties!!! For this Halloween themed cookies I decorated them as pumpkins, ghosts, black cats.

I enjoyed and had so much fun decorating these Halloween cookies. Isn’t there are scary and cute :)

Ingredients

Sugar Cookies - Nearly 2 dozens cookies

All purpose flour – 2 ½ cups

Unsalted Butter – 1 cup

Superfine Sugar – 1 cup

Egg – 1 no

Egg yolk – 1 no

Vanilla extract – 2 tsps

Salt a pinch

Preparation

In a large mixing bowl take butter,sugar,salt and mix well until light and fluffy.
Add the egg yolk and beat until fully integrated.
Mix in the whole egg, vanilla extract. Mix well.
Add the flour and mix until combined.
Divide the dough into three parts and wrap in plastic wrap.
Store in fridge at least 2 hours and upto 2 days until firm.
Preheat oven to 350 F. On the floured surface, roll the dough to ¼ inch thick, sprinkling with additional flour or powdered sugar as needed to prevent sticking.
Use cookies cutters to cut into shapes and place on parchment paper.

Bake until cookies appear light golden brown on the edges about 10-12 minutes.
Cool them before decorating.

Eggless Royal Icing

Ingredients:

Icing Sugar – ½ cup

Cornstarch – 1 ½ tsp

Lemon juice – 1 tsp

Food coloring gels – very little

Milk – 2 tsps

Preparation

In a mixing bowl, sift the sugar, cornstarch together.
Add lemon juice and milk and mix well until thick paste.
Divide the Icing into different bowls and add the colors accordingly.
Keep for 10 minutes.

We can adjust the icing accordingly based on our requirement. If thin icing is required add a bit of milk or for thick icing add more icing sugar.
Keep the icing in piping bags or ziplock bags and use them for decorating cookies.

Sending these cookies to Halloween Fiesta hosted by Vardhini, Food Palette Series - Rainbow colors hosted by Akheela , Decorating Challenge - Royal Icing and to my event CC-Festive Food

Minggu, 02 Februari 2014

SUPER EASY SUGAR COOKIES

School is in session and everyone is looking for lunch box ideas. This is a great one since it is the easiest sugar cookie I have ever tried. It is quick to put together, using simple ingredients and it has a fantastic, buttery flavor and better yet... you dont have to roll out the dough! Three of our granddaughters visited this weekend and they helped make these cookies for our tea party; we wore (flower adorned) big straw garden hats, fancy formals and tons of necklaces).

1 cup butter

1 and 1/4 cup white sugar

3 egg yolks

2 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

extra sugar to roll cookie dough in

Preheat oven to 350 and lightly grease cookie sheet.

Cream butter and sugar, then beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Add flour baking soda and cream of tartar. Beat until well mixed.

Form into walnut size balls and roll in sugar. Place 2" apart on cookie sheet (do not flatten). Bake 10-11 minutes or until tops are cracked and just turning color.

NOTE: I did not grease my cookie sheets and I had no sticking problems.

NOTE: I baked my cookies 13 minutes.