Painted Cookies

Name: Painted Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract; 227 grams cup butter or margarine, at room temperature; 1 large egg; 1 large egg yolk; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 4 Food coloring choices); 237 milliliters sugar

Painted Cookies might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 162 calories, 2g of protein, and 8g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 24. If you have sugar, egg yolk, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Cut butter into chunks and put in a large bowl; add sugar. Beat with a mixer to blend, then beat on high speed until mixture is fluffy.

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Butter

Sugar

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Add whole egg and vanilla and beat to mix thoroughly.

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Egg

Vanilla

Add 3 cups flour and beat on low speed until dough is well mixed.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Divide dough in half, shape into balls, and flatten each into a round cake. If desired, wrap dough airtight and chill up to 1 day.

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Dough

Wrap

One portion at a time, roll out dough on a floured board to 1/4 inch thick. With flour-dusted cookie cutters (2 to 3 in. wide), cut out cookies.

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Cut Out Cookies

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Roll

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Cookie Cutter

With a wide spatula, transfer cookies to baking sheets, spacing them at least 1 inch apart.

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Baking Sheet

Spatula

To make patterns on cookies, if desired, make impressions with a flour-dusted spoon tip or fork tines. Gently brush flour off cookies.

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All Purpose Flour

Mix egg yolk with 1/2 teaspoon water to blend. Divide mixture among 4 small bowls. Tint contents of each bowl with a different food coloring, mixing in a drop at a time to get desired intensity.

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Food Color

Egg Yolk

Water

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Bowl

Using small brushes, paint surface of cookies with colored mixtures.

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Bake in a 325 oven until cookies are golden on bottom, about 16 minutes (if using one oven, alternate pan positions after 8 minutes). Cool on pan about 5 minutes, then transfer with a wide spatula to racks to cool.

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