I was not joking when I said I did a lot of baking during the July 4th weekend! Here is the last of my red, white and blue, Fourth of July desserts. Regular Pink Apron readers know how much I love to do sugar cookies for holidays, and I was not going let our nation's birthday go by without some!
For our nation's birthday I decided to keep the cookies simple: red, white and blue stars. Some with sparkles and some with stripes. The striped ones looked lot better in person. For some reasopn they did not come through in the photos.
Alot both versions of the cookies were made with the same dough, the red ones with sparkling sugar seemed to be preferred. I think people like the extra sugar on top. One person said it give the cookie an extra crunch!
Sugar Cookies
6 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups unsalted butter
2 cups granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream sugar and butter until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl and add to butter mixture. Mix well. Put a handful of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll to desired thickness. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Put the rolled dough, including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes or longer. Your dough will be chilled and ready to cut and bake with now wait and no added flour! Repeat with scraps after cutting cookies. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 -10 minutes. Let cool.
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups unsalted butter
2 cups granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream sugar and butter until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl and add to butter mixture. Mix well. Put a handful of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll to desired thickness. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Put the rolled dough, including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes or longer. Your dough will be chilled and ready to cut and bake with now wait and no added flour! Repeat with scraps after cutting cookies. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 -10 minutes. Let cool.
Source: Fancys Flours
Royal Icing
3 tablespoons Meringue Powder
4 cups confectioners' sugar sifted
6 tablespoons warm water
Beat all ingredients until icing forms a peak (7-10 minutes at low speed with a heavy-duty mixer, 10-12 minutes at high speed with a hand-held mixer).
Source: Wilton
6 tablespoons warm water
Beat all ingredients until icing forms a peak (7-10 minutes at low speed with a heavy-duty mixer, 10-12 minutes at high speed with a hand-held mixer).
Source: Wilton
7 comments:
How patriotic these cookies look, nice job on the decorating. All your baking, you must have been very inspired for the 4th. thanks for sharing!
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These look to cute to eat!!!! I bet they are just as tasty as they look.
These are too cute and I love the recipe, sounds awesome!
They are stunning! I've worked with Royal Icing - it has beautiful results but can be temperamental...kudos to you! I think I would like the sugared tops better as well, but the others are SO beautiful! Buzzed it!
gorgeous cookies! what a nice treat to celebrate our nations birthday! I'm sure John Phillips Sousa would have loved them!
I love how you decorated these. So cute.
These cookies look great!! They look almost too cute to eat! :)
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