Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Name: Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 4 h 40 min
Cook time: 4 h 40 min
Total time: 4 h 40 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 907 grams confectioners sugar; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 36 servings Food coloring, as desired; 237 milliliters granulated sugar; 118 milliliters meringue powder (egg white powder); 1 teaspoon salt; 237 milliliters (2 sticks) unsalted butter; 1 teaspoon vanilla

Need a vegetarian dessert? Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies could be an outstanding recipe to try. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 210 calories, 1g of protein, and 5g of fat. This recipe serves 36. A mixture of baking powder, meringue powder, eggs, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 4 hours and 40 minutes. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Christmas.

Instructions

Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.

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Vanilla

Butter

Cream

Sugar

Egg

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Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a second large bowl and mix well. Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture 1 cup at a time. Chill the dough for 3 to 4 hours.

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Baking Powder

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment.

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Baking Sheet

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Roll out the dough and cut it into shapes with cookie cutters or a knife.

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Dough

Roll

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Place the shapes on the prepared cookie sheet. If decorating with colored sugar, brush the cookies with milk and sprinkle with colored sugar (if using royal icing, leave unfinished).

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Decorating Sugar

Icing

Milk

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Bake until the cookies are just beginning to brown around the edges, 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies.

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Remove the cookies to a rack to cool completely. If using royal icing, decorate the cookies as desired.

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Icing

Combine the confectioners' sugar, meringue powder and 3/4 cup water in a large bowl.

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Powdered Sugar

Water

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Mix slowly with an electric mixer until stiff enough to form peaks; the icing should be pure white and thick, but not fluffy and bubbly. If the frosting is over-beaten, it will get aerated which makes it harder to work with. If this happens, let the frosting sit to settle, and then use a rubber spatula to vigorously beat and smooth out the frosting.

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Frosting

Icing

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Spatula

Add up to 1 tablespoon food coloring and mix with a rubber spatula until the color is uniform. Gels are best with royal icing. You don't want to thin them with liquid colors. Be careful of adding too much color, which reduces the sheen of the frosting and can break down the consistency of the frosting over a couple of days. Store the icing at room temperature, covered, with plastic wrap on the surface.

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