Sugar Cookies With Royal Icing Recipe 435 Food

EASY SUGAR COOKIES WITH ROYAL ICING

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add beaten egg. Add remaining ingredients.
• Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350F
• Roll out dough on a floured surface to 1/4 inch thick.
• Cut the dough with your favorite cookie cutters.
• Place cut cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies are light-colored.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the first 3 ingredients and mix on medium speed for 5 minutes.
• If desired, add food coloring to achieve the desired color while the icing is mixing.
• For flooding, add water a little at a time until you achieve the consistency of heavy cream.

GINGER SUGAR COOKIES WITH VANILLA ROYAL ICING

Steps:

• For the sugar dough: Whisk together the flour, ginger, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl. Beat together the vanilla and eggs in a small bowl.
• Beat together the butter, granulated sugar and confectioners' sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed. Once incorporated, increase the speed to medium and beat until slightly creamy, about 3 minutes. Stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Reduce the speed to low, slowly pour in the egg mixture and beat until combined. Add the flour mixture in 3 additions, increasing the speed as the dough gets thicker to keep the beaters spinning. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and the beaters themselves as needed. Once all the flour mixture is just incorporated, increase the speed to medium high and beat until the dough is very smooth, about 5 minutes.
• Turn the dough out of the bowl and bring it together. Divide into 2 pieces. Shape each piece into a flat square and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour and up to overnight.
• To roll, cut and bake the cookies: Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.
• Dust another sheet of parchment with flour and put 1 piece of dough on top. Dust with more flour and top with another sheet of parchment. Roll out the dough into a rectangle about 1/4 inch thick (about 11 by 9 inches) and place in the freezer for 5 minutes. Repeat with the remaining piece of dough.
• Cut out cookies from one of the dough pieces using a 3-inch cutter. Arrange the cookies about 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Refrigerate while you cut the remaining cookies. Reroll and cut any scraps of dough. If the dough becomes very soft and difficult to roll or cut at any point during the process, place on a baking sheet in the freezer for 5 minutes.
• Bake, rotating the baking sheets front to back and bottom to top about halfway through, until golden brown around the edges, about 12 minutes. Let cool completely on the baking sheets on a cooling rack, about 30 minutes.
• For the royal icing: Combine the confectioners' sugar and meringue powder in a large bowl. Add the vanilla and 3 tablespoons water and beat with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until the icing forms thick and glossy peaks, about 2 minutes, adding up to 1 tablespoon more water, if needed. Color the icing as desired with gel food coloring.
• Fit pastry bags with small round tips and fill with the icing. Decorate the cookies as desired and let dry for 30 minutes.

PERFECT ROYAL ICING

Steps:

• Beat first three ingredients, then thin with a little water, if needed.
• Add almond, vanilla, and butter flavoring.
• Depending on how many colors you want, divide it between several bowls.
• To decorate on top of original layer of icing, thicken with powdered sugar until desired thickness.
• Decorating works best when used in the decorating bags with tips.
• Also, before spreading thin icing over cookies, try putting an outline of thick icing from a small decorating tip around the edge of the cookie.
• This way, the thin icing will not drip over the edge.