Cut out sugar cookies
small batch, simple, no spread, no chill cut out sugar cookies with glaze icing
Servings: 18 cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup salted butter
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg mixed and use 1 1/2 tablespoons of the egg mixture
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- 1-1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2-3 tablespoons warm water
- food coloring orange and sage green
- 1 tablespoon corn syrup
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400°
- In the large bowl with a mixer (stand mixer or hand mixer) cream together butter and powdered sugar until combined.
- Mix in the egg mixture and the vanilla.
- Add in flour, baking powder, and salt and mix on medium to combine.
- Mix until the dough forms a ball, it will pull away from the sides of the bowl.
- Roll out the dough in between two sheets of wax paper.
- Place a cookie cutter into a little flour, then into the cookie dough.
- Then transfer the cookies to a baking sheet and bake for 7-9 minutes.
- Don't overcrowd the cookie sheet.
- Check the cookies about a minute before the timer goes off, don't let them brown too much, they will cool and become "dry".
- Allow cookies to cool on a baking sheet.
- Then mix powdered sugar, water, corn syrup and mix completely smooth.
- Separate the icing into two bowls, and use a drop of food coloring into each bowl to create the color you want.
- Brush the icing onto completely cooled cookies.
- Allow icing to dry before stacking cookies.