Recipe Source: Real Simple
Ingredients:
Butter-1 cup
Granulated Sugar-3/4 cup ( grind to fine powder)
All Purpose Flour/ Maida-2 1/2 cups
Baking Soda-1/4 tsp
Salt-1/4 tsp
Fresh Cream-1/4 cup
Vanilla Essence-1 tsp
Procedure:
1. Cream together butter and powdered sugar.
2. Add cream and beat until fluffy.
3. Add in vanilla essence.
4. In a separate bowl mix flour, salt and baking soda.
5. Add this mixture to butter mixture and mix until everything comes together to a soft dough.
6. Divide it into 4 equal portions, place each portion in a cling wrap, and refrigerate.
7. You can prepare this the day before and the cookies can be made the next day or any day with in the week.
8. Before making the cookie, remove the dough from fridge and let it become little soft.
9. If it is straight out of the fridge, then it will break while trying to roll it.
10. When the dough comes to slightly softer consistency, place it between two sheets of cling wrap and roll it into 1/8″ thick disc.
11. Cut with a cookie cutter.
12. Gently remove the cookies from the wrap and place it on a lined baking tray.
13. Refrigerate until firm.
14. Preheat oven to 175C.
15. Bake the cookies for 5-10 minutes.
16. When the base starts browning, remove from oven and let it sit on counter for 5 minutes or until the cookies become firm.
17. Remove the cookies from the tray with a spatula and cool completely on a wire rack.
P.S: The dough consistency is very important while rolling it. If it has become soft, wrap it and place in refrigerator until firm before rolling it out.
Ingredients:
Confectioner’s Sugar/ Icing Sugar-2 cups
Milk-4-5 tbs
Vanilla Essence-1 tsp
Liquid Food Colours
Procedure:
1. In a large bowl sieve the icing sugar.
2. Add vanilla essence and 2 tbs of milk.
3. Whisk until incorporated.
4. Add milk by tablespoons until you end up with a thick icing of dropping consistency.
5. Divide it into 4 equal portions.
6. Leave one as it is and for the other 3 bowls add different food colours.
7. Mix well. Pour the colours into disposable icing bags.
8. Decorate the cookies as per your creativity.
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Wow, shruthi tremendous work she have done,cant take my eyes from those cute looking beautiful decorated sugar cookies.
wow. very nice..
wow,,,the cookies are really lloking beautiful and yummy…book makred..will try soon..
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wow!..colorful, artistic, sweet and crafty cookie that no one will resist having one…thnx for sharing the pics and simple techniques! easy and simple to make! thank you for the recipe!
I am so tired of praising you gayathri,you are just too good at everything s proud of u,being a mom u get time to do everything hats off to you.So tempting cookies love it.
You are tempting me with these lovely and colorful cookies.
Very detailes post.I can feel your hard work and sruthi’s art.Hats off.Lovely cookies.
Gorgeous looking cookies,sounds inviting and love your art work..hats off to you and Sruthi..
Those cookies have come out PERFECT. Great details on the icing too, very colorful — feel like grabbing a handful off of the monitor 🙂
Beautiful, colorful and cute cookies!! I can really understand the hard work involved.
Fabulous. They are indeed cute and Shruthi has done a nice job. These cookies are on my mind from a while but the decorati g part is pulling me back.
So much love on one cookie. Beautiful work Gayathri.
Wow! beautiful cookes that sruti has made. They are the best. Congrats you have the help coming up as you need.
Wow so pretty
So cute and pretty cookies. Tremendous effort you gave Gayathri. Amazing!!!
Wow the cookies are sooo good and the decorations by the little one Shruti are mind blowing!!!
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Wow!Looks gorgeous Gayathri. I have been wanting to try these but never did. Your step by step pics makes job easier for me to try.
Wow amazing gayathri .You have done a great job .Very tempting cookies.
Can the cookies and icing be made the previous day? Will the icing be still good?
You can prepare the cookies previously but as for icing fresh is always better. I have refrigerated the remaining to use it again but was not very much satisfied with the results..
Hi, I am currently baking these gorgeous cookies! First batch the shapes expanded, and second batch they didn’t, but they remaind chewy in the middle and crispy on the edge. Can you please tell me how they are suppose to be? I am in Australia using Australian measurements, but have tried to adjust using your measurement guide, however I’m not good at measurements hahaha! Can you please help me out as I believe I could have measured incorrectly? 1 measuring cup is 250ml and 1 teaspoon is 5mls. Thank you in advance
Hi Sharon, the cookies are crispy to bite. And these cookies don’t spread. In my measuring cup, 1 cup of flour equals 130 gm. And a tsp equals 5 gm. If you are in doubt with measuring cups, then I would suggest you try a weighing scale. Happy baking!
Thanks Gayathri, my flour measurements were right in this case, maybe the butter, sugar and cream were wrong measurements, could you please give me the butter and sugar in grams and the cream in mils? I will still be keeping the ones I already baked hahah! They are still yummy! I am making them as a gift 🙂
Hi Gayathri, Just an update, All my measurements check out now except for the butter and sugar. I have normal white sugar which is what i use for making tea etc and is this what you call granulated sugar? Can you please provide the butter and sugar in grams? Thank you and apologies for so many questions! 🙂
Hi Sharon, here is the measurement in gm. Butter-220 gm, granulated sugar-150 gm, cream-55 ml. And yes the sugar is what we normally use for making tea. Hope this helps. Please check your oven temp also..
Thank you Gayathri, much appreciated 🙂 My oven is electric and I had it set on 175d C.
Hi Gaythri,
I am planning to make a jewelry cake. Can I use gold color in this icing sugar glaze. I need to pipe the necklace on cake. Kindly help me.
Prepare yellow icing and then add gold dust. Pipe it on cake..
Thanks gaythri!!
Hi! I am looking at gifting cookies. Once i have done the icing, can i pack these in cellowrap sheets and pack in paper bags. Wont that spoil the icing?
Wrap them individually and then wrap two together with a bubble wrap. This will help you in preventing the spoiling of icing..
Hi which butter you used in cookies ,salted butter or unsalted?
Unsalted
hi whats the shelf life of these cookies?
One or two weeks in fridge.