Favorite Sugar Cookie Dough

Name: Favorite Sugar Cookie Dough
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 45
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 227 grams cup butter; 2 larges egg yolks; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 45 servings Royal Icing; 118 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla

Favorite Sugar Cookie Dough might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 45. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 190 calories, 1g of protein, and 9g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. If you have butter, sugar, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is an inexpensive recipe for fans of Southern food.

Instructions

In a bowl, with an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat room-temperature butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Stir or beat in flour until well blended. Flatten dough into a 1-inch-thick disk. On a lightly floured board, roll dough about 1/8 inch thick. Follow directions below to make cookies.

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Egg Yolk

Vanilla

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Roll

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Ornaments

With a floured cookie cutter, cut ornament shapes from cookie dough.

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Cookie Dough

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Cookie Cutter

Make an imprint in the center of each cookie by lightly pressing a star-shape cookie cutter into dough, making sure not to cut all the way through.

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Dough

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Cookie Cutter

Use a drinking straw to poke a hole in each cookie.

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Drinking Straws

Transfer to baking sheets lined with cooking parchment.

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Baking Sheet

Bake in a 300 oven until golden, about 15 minutes.

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Oven

Transfer cookies to racks to cool.

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Serve when cool, or thread a ribbon through each hole, tie, and hang from a tree or in a window.

To make them special: Prepare cookies as above, but skip step With a small offset spatula, spread a thin layer of tinted Royal Icing on each ornament.

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Spread

Icing

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Offset Spatula

To make them spectacular: Follow directions above for special version; let icing dry. With a pastry bag fitted with a #2 plain tip and filled with icing, create raised accents.

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Icing

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Pastry Bag

Sprinkle sanding sugar over the still-wet piping, then tilt and tap cookie to remove excess.

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Sanding Sugar

Add drages.

Wreaths

With a floured 3- to 4-inch fluted-edge cookie cutter, cut out large circles from cookie dough. With a floured 1- to 2-inch cutter, cut out a circle in each cookie.

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Cookie Dough

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Cookie Cutter

Transfer cookies to baking sheets lined with cooking parchment. Gather scraps, reroll, and cut out more wreaths.

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Baking Sheet

Bake in a 300 oven until golden, about 15 minutes.

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Oven

Transfer cookies to racks to cool.

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Serve when cool, or thread a ribbon through each wreath and hang from a tree or in a window.

To make them special: With a pastry bag fitted with a #2 plain tip and filled with green Royal Icing, pipe "branches" onto the wreath. Or with a small offset spatula, spread a thin layer of tinted icing on each wreath.

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Spread

Icing

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Offset Spatula

Pastry Bag

To make them spectacular: Follow directions for special version; with a pastry bag fitted with a #2 plain tip and filled with red Royal Icing, apply "berries" to each wreath.

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Berries

Icing

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Pastry Bag

Sprinkle sanding sugar over the still-wet icing, then tilt and tap cookie to remove excess.

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Sanding Sugar

Icing

Cutout Cookies

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With a floured square cookie cutter with a fluted edge, cut out 20 cookies from cookie dough.

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Cookie Dough

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Cookie Cutter

Transfer to baking sheets lined with cooking parchment.

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Baking Sheet

With smaller floured cookie cutters (we used a pear shape), cut out 20 top pieces from dough. If necessary, gather scraps, reroll, and cut out more top pieces.

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Dough

Pear

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Cookie Cutter

Brush the back of each top piece with a little water and press gently onto squares.

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Water

Bake in a 300 oven until golden, about 15 minutes.

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Oven

Transfer cookies to racks to cool.

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To make them special: With a small offset spatula, spread a thin layer of tinted icing on each top piece.

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Spread

Icing

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Offset Spatula

To make them spectacular: Follow directions for special version; use a pastry bag fitted with a #2 plain tip and filled with Royal Icing to create dots and leaves. If desired, apply a bit of gold leaf while icing is still moist.

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Icing

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Pastry Bag

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Servings:

227grams

cup butter 2larges

egg yolks 591milliliters

all-purpose flour 45servings

Royal Icing 118milliliters

sugar 1teaspoon

vanilla

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel are great choices for Southern. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. The Fess Parker Santa Barbara Riesling with a 4 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 9 dollars per bottle.