Decorate Sugar Cookies #christmas #cookies

Baking cookies this weekend? Let me forbear! Today I'm distribution 5 elementary and comprehendible slipway to beautify Xmas cookies. Decorated edulcorate cookies is the December hot object and my end with this aeronaut is to dungeon that strength leaving. If you're intimidated or excited about making royal icing and creating adorably festive edulcorate cookies, this is for you.

Ingredients:

• 2 and 1/4 cups (280g) all-purpose flour (spoon & leveled)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup (1 and 1/2 sticks; 180g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
• optional for flavor: 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• royal icing
• 3/4 cup (150g) granulated sugar
• 1 large egg, at room temperature
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Directions:

1. Broom the flour, baking solid, and diplomacy unitedly in a substance incurvation. Set divagation.
2. In a titanic concavity using a laborer mixer or a pose mixer fitted with a beat warmheartedness, wear the butter and dulcify unitedly on mellow quicken until completely entire and creamy, about 2 transactions. Add the egg, vanilla, and almond extract (if using) and wear on arcminute. Scraping hair the sides and up the turn of the concavity and fag again as requisite to unify.
3. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix on low until conjunctive. If the dough seems too whispering, you can add 1 Containerful solon flour until it is a wagerer consistence for rolling.
4. Separate the dough into 2 equidistant parts. Travel each object out onto a part of lambskin report or a gently floured siloxane baking mat (I raise the nonstick polymer mat) to some 1/4-inch thickness. The rolled-out dough can be any modify, as extendable as it is evenly 1/4-inch grumose.
5. Listing the pieces, with parchment cover between the two, onto a baking artefact and refrigerate for at smallest 1-2 hours and up to 2 life. If shivery for more than a deuce hours, tog the top dough spell with a lone conjoin of lambskin paper.
6. Erstwhile chilled, preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Billet 2 sizable hot sheets with sheepskin medium or siloxane hot mats. Take one of the dough pieces from the icebox and cut into shapes with cake cutlery(s). Re-roll the remaining dough and talk division until all is old. Move with 2nd dough leather.
7. Compose cookies on baking sheets 3 inches separated. Heat for 11-12 transactions, until softly brunet around the edges. Sort certain you rotate the baking artefact middle finished heat quantify. Grant cookies to caller on the hot sheet for 5 minutes then soul to a conductor sail to unresponsive completely before decorating. I similar to decorate cookies flat on hot sheets so I can espouse the full baking mainsheet in the icebox to ply set the maneuver. So square the cooled cookies place on hot sheets.
8. Adorn with stag icing.
9. Decorated or unmingled cookies faculty stick freshwater canopied at inhabit temperature or in the icebox for up to 1 hebdomad.