Vanilla Sugar Cookies
Source of Recipe
Sunday Dinner
List of Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter -- softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
for snowmen ...pretzels sticks
Royal Icing
Recipe
Stir flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl.
Beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla in second bowl until blended. Stir
in
flour mixture.
Gather into ball. Wrap. Refrigerate several hours or overnight.
To bake: Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Roll our dough with lightly floured rolling pin on lightly floured
surface
to 1/8" thickness.
Cut with 4 1/2 to 5" snowman cookie cutter.
Press pretzel arms on underside of dough. Place on baking sheets, 1
1/2"
apart.
Bake for 12 minutes, until lightly browned at edges.
Cool cookies on racks.
Royal Icing: Beat 3 tablespoons powdered egg whites, 4 cups (1 pound
box)
confectioners' sugar and 6 tablespoons water in bowl until peaks form
and
icing is texture of sour cream, 8-10 minutes. Use to pipe designs and
to
"glue" decorations. Thin icing with a little water, a drop at a time,
until
consistency of honey. Use this for base coat on cookies.
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