EntranceCookies for children with icing. Top cookie icing recipes
Recently I was ordered to cook a simple homemade cookies with colored sugar icing. I had to search in my records good recipe, which would be inexpensive, but at the same time, so that the pastries turn out tasty and beautiful. I opted for the option that was once my favorite.
There are a lot of ingredients for the dough, but they are all available. In addition, a lot of cookies are obtained from one serving. One of the most important components is potato starch, which makes it possible to make pastries more crumbly and tender. Everything is getting ready quickly hastily, and can be stored for a long time if not eaten immediately.
Recipe Information
Cooking method: in the oven .
Total cooking time: 30 minutes. (additional 60 minutes in the refrigerator) min.
Servings: 35-40 pcs. .
Ingredients:
- flour - 3 tbsp.
- butter - 150 g
- potato starch - 125 g
- salt - a pinch.
- soda - ½ tsp
- baking powder - ½ tsp
- sugar - 1 cup
- milk - 2/3 cup
- egg - 1 pc.
- vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
for glaze:
- powdered sugar - about 200 g
- lemon juice
- food coloring.
How to cook:
Butter must be room temperature. Then it is easy to beat. Put it in a bowl and beat with a mixer. But you can just grind with a fork. Pour sugar, vanilla sugar (preparations at home) and grind (or beat) everything together until homogeneous mass.
Add one egg.
Mix thoroughly.
Sift the entire portion of flour into a separate bowl, send baking powder, soda, salt, starch (sifted) there.
Pour half of the dry mixture into the oil mass. We mix.
We add milk.
And add the rest of the dry mixture.
Knead the dough and form a ball. Wrap it up in cling film. We send it to the refrigerator for 1-2 hours or to the freezer for 30-40 minutes.
We take out the chilled dough and roll it into a layer 0.3-0.5 cm thick. Please note that cookies will grow well in the oven. So we make it thinner. Squeeze out the hearts with molds.
Lay out on a baking sheet lined with parchment. We put in a preheated oven. We bake cookies at home at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.
We take out ruddy hearts from the oven. Let them cool down. And we send the next batch to bake. I got almost four batches from one serving of dough.
Prepare the icing for the cookies. Sift the icing sugar into a deep bowl. Pour 3-4 tablespoons into a separate cup. lemon juice or diluted in water citric acid. Same way food coloring. And gradually mix.
You need to add liquid until you get the consistency of liquid sour cream. It is important to catch the moment here so that the icing is not thick, but not very liquid either.
We cover our homemade heart cookies with the resulting fudge and let dry on parchment or on a wire rack. Excess frosting may run off. If you wish, you can decorate the cookies with sprinkles, sprinkling on the icing that has not yet hardened.
Note to the owner:
- This icing can be used to decorate gingerbread, Easter cakes, cookies or shortbread. It does not dry quickly, but then it does not lose its shape. If it seemed to you that the glaze was already dry after half an hour, it is not. It is soft inside. If you start packing the cookies, you will immediately see that the icing begins to melt and lose its shape. So let it dry thoroughly, even overnight.
- if you love chocolate chip cookie, add 1-2 tbsp. cocoa powder. In this case, you need to take less flour by 1-2 tbsp. Or use one of the ready-made
Hello friends! Today I went to Maria Ra, who doesn’t know, this is such a store and I heard the song “Girlfriends-cookies are our cookies ...” And so to say, thoughts flooded me to offer you recipes for gingerbread cookies. Wow, it's popular now.
Obviously you have heard about it and even tried it, I am convinced of this. If you want to learn how to cook this sweet delicacy, so let's understand its intricacies and nuances of cooking with me.
To prepare this dessert, you will need to knead the dough and make the glaze, and beautifully decorate such a creation. By the way, it is interesting that someone calls such sweets cookies, and someone calls them gingerbread, but how are you used to?
There is enough a large number of recipes for this type of dough. But the classic remains the same. This is my favorite option, it is perfect, because the gingerbread cookies are quite tasty, smooth and beautiful, and most importantly, fragrant.
This dough is ideal in taste and shape, cracks do not work, which is very important.
We will need:
- sugar - 500 g
- boiling water - 200 ml
- butter - 200 g
- soda - 0.5 tsp
- salt - 1 tsp
- ginger - 1 tsp
- cinnamon - 2 tsp
- cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, allspice, anise - 1/4 tsp each
- egg - 1 pc.
- flour - 800-900 g
- honey - 1 tbsp. l optional
Cooking method:
1. Take a saucepan with a thick bottom. Send it to the stove, make medium heat and start melting granulated sugar.
It is important to note that you do not need to stir at first, wait until the bottom layer begins to melt.
2. Then start stirring with a spatula to evenly help the sugar dissolve.
3. After you should see such a consistency, be careful not to bring this mixture to the point of burning, otherwise your cookies will have a bitter taste.
Important! Before the next step, do not forget to check if there are grains of sugar left, it should completely dissolve.
Boil the caramel until a dark amber color, then remove the pan from the heat and pour in the boiling water in a thin stream. Be prepared for the mass to start bubbling and hissing, because the temperature is high.
Important! Do not forget to stir constantly when pouring boiling water.
4. The syrup will be dark in color, after the mass is homogeneous after pouring water, send the butter at room temperature. And slowly stirring, put the pan on the fire so that the butter melts.
5. After dissolving the oil, add 1 tsp of soda, salt and spices. Take spices to your taste, but without them, keep in mind that the aroma of finished products will not be so pleasant. Stir.
The baking soda will cause the mixture to sizzle and expand slightly. At this stage, you can add a spoonful of honey, but remember that honey is a strong allergen and not everyone absorbs it, especially children. And if you are preparing gingerbread to order, then it is better not to add honey so that there are no problems.
6. Cool the mass, and the foam cap should fall off. When the mass becomes room temperature, add egg. Stir.
Important! If such proportions are large for you, then you want to make half as much, then it will be enough to add only the yolk.
In parts, add the sifted flour, slowly knead. Stir the dough first in the pan with a whisk or spatula, then, as it becomes impossible to do, transfer it to a table sprinkled with flour.
7. The dough should be soft and slightly sticky. After it lies in the refrigerator, it will become denser and easier to work with.
Put the dough in the refrigerator overnight, wrap it in a food bag.
8. Cut off the desired piece from the dough and roll it into a thin cake. The dough can be stored both in the refrigerator itself for about 1 month, and in the freezer for 3 months.
Roll out the mass on a Teflon mat so that the surface of the gingerbread cookies is even and smooth. For rolling out the dough, it is very convenient to use wooden rulers or planks so that the cake has the same thickness everywhere.
Then with the help special molds or as they are also called clearings, make the necessary figures.
You can use a special rolling pin, of course it is much more convenient with it, who often makes such goodies, also to order, I recommend purchasing it.
9. Bake cookies in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 6-7 minutes on a Teflon mat. The advice is that the product does not turn out tough, you do not need to hammer the dough with flour, and secondly, you do not need to overexpose it in the oven.
If the dough after baking is too deformed, then this means you put a little flour, but if it bubbles, then a lot. If the surface is uneven, place a cutting board on the hot gingerbread.
10. Gingerbread cookies keep their shape well, but inside they should still be soft and porous. Smooth and very beautiful on the outside, but also tasty and fragrant. Good luck in the kitchen!
Proven Gingerbread Recipe
According to this option, the cookies do not get stale for a long time, which, as they say, is very pleasant. It is also quite tender and amazingly tasty, in general, I advise you to cook this miracle too:
Easy Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
Moving on, and for starters, I want to suggest that you do the most simple version of the test. You can decorate the most in the usual way, sprinkle with powdered sugar, or make the icing, which you will find later in this article.
Usually, according to this recipe, New Year's or New Year's are baked, in the West this tradition has long been carried out and everyone is treated to such creations, in Russia it has only now become popular to cook these sweets.
From this number of products, you will get about 41 things, again depending on what molds you have.
We will need:
- flour - 2 tbsp.
- sugar - 150 g
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.
- butter - 100 g
- baking soda - 1 tsp
- ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- ground ginger - 1 tsp
- egg whites - 1 pc.
- powdered sugar - 50 g
Cooking method:
1. Take the butter and leave it in the kitchen in advance so that it comes to room temperature. Then put it in the microwave and melt, the main thing is that it becomes soft.
2. Add granulated sugar and an egg to the butter, mix, then add cinnamon, ginger and soda.
Interesting! If you want to make with the taste of honey, then add 1 spoon of honey and vanilla sugar.
Mix everything with a tablespoon so that there are no lumps. The color of the dough will change slightly, and will have a slightly brown tint. Add flour and knead well on the table.
3. After all this, wrap the dough in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
4. Next, roll out the dough into a large cake, the thickness should be about 4-5 mm, use a special rolling pin, as in the previous version, I showed you the photo. And then with the help of molds, make any funny figures in the form of little men, hearts, balls and anything. After all, you can use different forms to create a festive atmosphere, for example, for Valentine's Day or Easter.
Interesting! You can make punctures and hang cookies on the Christmas tree, or make toppers by sticking sticks into the dough, which will decorate any
Put the resulting figures on a baking sheet, cover the baking sheet parchment paper in a preheated oven to 180-200 degrees for five minutes. Keep in mind that the cookies will puff up a little after baking, so leave some space between the shapes as you bake.
Determine the readiness of the cookies in this way, if it is browned and slightly browned, then it is already ready.
By the way, you can make bears and give them a nut, they will also look nice and great.
5. Now let's prepare the glaze. Or you can just sprinkle powdered sugar over the finished treats. Most easy way to make fudge is to beat the powdered sugar with a whisk with protein. By the way, you can use another one, remember, by Easter I shared my best practices with you.
6. So, with the help of a mixer and a whisk attachment, beat the protein and powder until you see a white mass that looks like a cream. By the way, if you have absolutely no desire to make such a cream, you can simply melt the chocolate and pour over the gingerbread cookies or anoint with condensed milk.
7. You have to come up with various patterns on cookies yourself, if you are just starting, then don’t get up much, just apply icing in the form of circles and all sorts of symbols and this will already create a holiday atmosphere, but if you all have such a desire, then detailed instructions and a master class for applying icing on gingerbread cookies, see the following articles.
Pack in a branded box. Tie a bow and present or treat your family and friends. Delicious discoveries!
By the way, such sweets can be made with children in the form of crafts for any celebration or event.
We bake gingerbread without honey
Concerning next recipe, then of course children simply adore it, because there is no honey, which means there is no most important allergen. Let's make such nice gingerbread cookies for painting. The recipe couldn't be easier.
There is nothing supernatural in the composition, but they taste amazing, they are light and crispy.
We will need:
- flour - 300 g
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- baking powder - 1 tsp
- butter - 200 g
- sugar - 150 g
- vanilla to taste
Cooking method:
1. Beat softened butter with sugar with a mixer. Then add one egg.
In a separate bowl, sift the flour and stir in the baking powder. Gradually add to butter and sugar.
2. After the dough is ready, add cinnamon and ground ginger directly to it. Knead on the table.
Place the gingerbread dough in the refrigerator, wrap it in a bag for 1 hour. The dough is soft, after it lies down it will become more elastic and denser.
Place 4 mm thick cookies on a silicone mat on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees until done, 6 minutes.
4. Draw on a sheet of paper a blank of what you will draw on the gingerbread. Then take the multifork and put the sheet in it.
5. Make protein glaze, for this, combine the protein with powdered sugar and beat with a food processor or mixer. At the very end, add lemon juice, literally a drop, you can replace it with citric acid.
Draw a stork with a bag. Then use a stick or a toothpick to smooth the structure of the cream.
6. Leave this charm to dry until the next morning. Then slowly remove from the multifora.
7. In the same way, make drops of a different color. Make eyes, eyebrows and cilia with black gel dye.
8. Cover the cookie itself, paint with icing, circle the outline, and then fill the entire surface, lay out the blanks of the stork and the muzzle.
9. After everything is dry, paint further.
10. Then wrap in bags and attach bows. Beauty and more. A real gift for any occasion, such as in this case for the birth of a child.
Making classic gingerbread cookies
This option will be quite interesting and very spicy, we will use some kind of powder and cloves. It will turn out quite original and at the same time will remind the taste of childhood.
I will tell you a secret, it is not necessary to decorate with icing, because you can cheat if you do it in the form of beads or garlands on a ribbon. In general, read on and see for yourself.
We will need:
Cooking method:
1. Prepare all the ingredients for work. To do this, in a mortar or in some other container, rub a clove with a pestle, you can use a coffee grinder or a blender, but it seems to me that this is superfluous, since it needs quite a bit.
2. By the way, it is better to sift flour through a sieve several times in advance, this will noticeably saturate finished goods oxygen, the dough will rise better.
3. Melt the butter and add granulated sugar into it, beat with a mixer whisk. Add honey and egg, beat again so that the mass becomes homogeneous in consistency.
4. Now start adding flour in portions and whisk at the same time. Take your time, beat gradually so that all the flour is gone.
5. It will seem to you that the dough turned out to be quite viscous and soft, as it should be. Divide it in half and wrap part of the dough in cling film and send to the refrigerator in the freezer.
Then mix well, roll in a bag and put in the refrigerator and in the freezer for 1-3 hours.
7. Next, take parchment paper or baking paper and sprinkle it with a little flour. Remove the dough from the freezer and roll it thinly on paper, then use the molds to make flowers, hearts, or maybe you have bunnies and cats.
Roll out the second portion of the dough and cut out various kinds of images. On some figures, make holes with a stick. Tear off the excess dough and place the parchment leaf with the products on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven for 6 minutes at 180 degrees.
8. After the gingerbread cookies have cooled, thread a ribbon into the holes or tie it as if it were a gift. Treat to the health of your loved ones and relatives!
Delicious treat with honey and cinnamon
Do you know what cookies are in Latvia called piparkukas, which means cookies with pepper. Of course, you can try this if you visit this country, I suggest doing it yourself at home, there is nothing difficult, see everything for yourself, and then write your review at the bottom of this site.
Ikea gingerbread cookie recipe
The IKEA store already sells ready dough for these sweet flour products, so I suggest using it and I think the result will also please you. Especially from ready dough work always goes faster, there is no extra fuss and troubles. The main thing is to find it))).
By the way, you know that cinnamon, ginger and cloves in its composition have antiseptic properties and help our immunity.
We will need:
- Ikea dough for gingerbread or cookies - 500 g
- protein - 1 pc.
- powdered sugar - 1 tbsp.
- cocoa powder - 0.5 tsp
- turmeric - 0.5 tsp
Cooking method:
1. Defrost the dough, for this, place it in the refrigerator for 1 day. Open the package, it smells very tasty, such a honey shade. Roll it out with a rolling pin 3-5 mm thick.
The dough is very plastic and easy to roll out. This is a great idea to be honest.
The layer turns out to be huge, now make whatever you want out of it, hearts, Christmas trees and other shapes. Make it close so that there is less excess dough.
2. The blanks are ready, place them on baking paper and bake this dessert in the oven for 8 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Of course, it is better to bake on a silicone mat or Teflon, then nothing will burn and the surface of the cookies will be even.
3. Now make a protein-sugar topping. To do this, beat the protein with a mixer until peaks, then add powdered sugar and plus a few drops of lemon juice. If the cream turns out to be liquid, then add a little more powdered sugar. The frosting will be white.
Divide it into several parts to make several colors. For example, you can add cocoa to one, turmeric to another, and nothing to the third, let it be white.
Important! Do not prepare the glaze for a reserve, it must be made and applied immediately to flour product because it dries out quickly.
4. Take a culinary syringe and decorate gingerbread with them, or you can make a culinary bag out of a regular bag or parchment paper. Get used to it and it will turn out smoothly and beautifully.
5. Now all this beauty needs to go to dry in the oven at a temperature of 70 degrees just a little bit. Because raw protein was used, and it could contain salmonella, and at a temperature of 70-100 degrees they will die.
These are the gourmets that turned out, of course, if there is no ready-made dough, then do it yourself, take any of this selection!
Classic gingerbread cookies with icing
You may think that applying glaze is quite difficult. Yes, you may be right, but if you had a special device, take a look:
However, there are several ways to apply glaze on gingerbread, but we will talk about them in the next note, so don't miss it, and you will already decide whether it is easy or difficult, expect a detailed master class.
As for this recipe, it will be in a classic style and we will make cake toppers, and by the way, you have seen my new note on cakes, if not, then go ahead and
We will need:
- natural honey - 3 tbsp
- sugar - 2 tbsp
- cinnamon - 2 tsp
- ground ginger - 2 tsp
- ground coriander - on the tip of a knife
- nutmeg - on the tip of a knife
- soda - 1 tsp
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- flour - 370 g
- powdered sugar - 180 g
- protein - 1 pc.
- food coloring in different colors
Cooking method:
1. Place two tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon, ground ginger, coriander, nutmeg and honey in a saucepan. Make a small fire and constantly stir the mixture until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Then let the mixture cool down. Next, beat in one chicken egg and add flour in parts. The dough should be soft. Let it rest, put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
2. Then, using a rolling pin, make a large circle 5 mm thick. The dough can be divided into 5 parts for easy rolling.
Make shapes using molds. Place them on a baking sheet, cover it with parchment paper and bake at 160 degrees for 15 minutes.
3. Insert a stick into each cookie received. And now it remains to decorate with icing. To do this, beat the protein to steep peaks and add powdered sugar to it, you should get a real tasty cream.
Divide the icing into several bowls and add coloring to each.
4. To make it easier, draw the characters' faces with a pencil. They can be from cartoons, fairy tales or invented by you.
5. Use a piping bag and carefully and slowly draw and paint over the surface.
6. These are such cute creatures. Patience and perseverance. Enjoy your meal! Bake another cake and invite guests to drink tea!
The recipe for a sweet treat from Yulia Vysotskaya
Well, and one more option that you can watch and take note of from the popular TV presenter We eat at home:
Incredibly simple and very beautiful, do you agree? Then try to do it, and then share your opinion below under this article.
Learning to paint with glaze
And finally, I found you a gift in the form of this video, after watching which you could easily decorate these sweet treats, watch and repeat step by step and you will also be able to paint beautifully:
This concludes this entry, I hope you liked the note and you will definitely share it on social networks and join me in the group in contact. Best wishes! See you all! Bye!
Delicious cookies - simple recipes with photos
Delight your loved ones with original Easter cookies: all the nuances of cooking, baking, icing recipe and decorating cookies, as well as photos and videos.
25 min
389 kcal
4/5 (4)
On Easter, my children and I try to cook together, so that mom would have more fun, and the kids would not get bored with nothing to do. Especially for them, I bake not only Easter cakes, but also delicious Easter cookies, which can be made not only in almost any shape, but also very beautifully decorated - this is where children's imagination comes in handy.
Fragrant and attractive products are obtained simply for glory and quickly disappear from the table, and a new portion is easier to prepare than a lung, even a child can handle it. All thanks to great-grandmother simple recipe, according to which Easter cookies in the form of bunnies, chickens or an ordinary egg won a prominent place on the family holiday table.
Preparation time: 60 minutes.
Kitchen appliances
Please prepare in advance all the necessary utensils and tools for the successful baking of Easter cookies:
- a baking sheet with a non-stick coating with a diagonal of 25 cm;
- several voluminous bowls with a capacity of 300 to 900 ml;
- a piece of parchment paper and cling film;
- tablespoons and teaspoons;
- kitchen scales or other measuring utensils;
- cutting board;
- rolling pin;
- linen and cotton towels;
- pastry bag or plastic bag with a cut off corner;
- fine sieve;
- steel whisk.
Among other things, I strongly advise you to keep your mixer or blender ready so that you can knead the cookie dough correctly and efficiently.
You will need
Dough
Did you know? I sometimes add my favorite confectionery seasonings to the dough to make it more flavorful. Easter Gingerbread Cookie It is made with the addition of a teaspoon of ground ginger.
Glaze
- 200 g of powdered sugar;
- 1 egg white;
- 4 - 5 drops of food coloring.
Important! If you wish, you can add a little lemon juice to the glaze so that your cookies have citrus notes, and no one will forbid you to use plain vegetable juice instead of store-bought food coloring - it will be safer and healthier!
Cooking sequence
Training
- We remove the yolks from the refrigerator, put them closer to the sun, in a warm place.
- Protein, on the contrary, is kept in the cold until it is needed.
- Butter cut into small pieces.
- We put it to melt in a warm place, but do not melt it into a liquid.
Did you know? If you come across too hard (and therefore high-quality) butter that does not want to melt quickly, put it in the microwave for exactly 5 seconds at the highest power, and then transfer it back to a warm place. After a few minutes, the melting process should start successfully.
- Sift the flour with a sieve at least three times.
Dough
- Sprinkle melted butter with powdered sugar.
- Then rub them together with a spoon.
- After that, set to whip at the slowest speed.
- Pour in the yolks, brought to room temperature, beat for about 30 seconds.
- As soon as you get a light mass without lumps, remove the mixer.
- Pour half the flour, manually mix it into the prepared egg mass.
- Then add the second half of the sifted flour, mix.
- The resulting fragile, crumbling dough is rolled into a ball.
- Wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge.
- We stand the dough there for at least half an hour, and preferably the whole hour.
Important! I usually make more dough so that I can divide it into several "balls" and put it in the refrigerator, and then, when necessary, quickly start making a new batch of cookies. Keep so tender shortbread dough it can be for quite a long time, once my portion of the dough lay in the freezer for about a month, but this did not affect the quality of baking.
Cookie shaping
Bakery products
Glaze
Assembly
- Pour about a third of the glaze into a pastry bag.
- We cover the remaining glaze with polyethylene so that it does not freeze, do not put it in the refrigerator.
- We circle the edges of each cookie so that we get beautiful sides.
- Then let the icing on the cookies harden well, it will only take a couple of minutes.
- After that, add the main dye chosen in advance to the pastry bag.
- Stir it inside, trying to thoroughly color the whole mixture.
- We divide the glaze that we set aside in advance into as many parts as we have flowers.
- Add your own dye to each part, mix with a whisk.
- We distribute each color in plastic bags, cut off small corners.
- We begin to fantasize, filling the contours of cookies with bright colors to our liking.
- Let the finished masterpieces harden and transfer to a spacious dish.
That's all! Now you know everything about how to make and decorate Easter cookies with your own hands at home, without using newfangled and harmful additives.
Products for the test:
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 150 gr.
- Vanilla sugar - 2 tsp
- Butter - 150 gr.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Baking powder - 2 tsp (or 1 tsp slaked soda)
- Flour - about 500 gr.
Products for icing sugar:
- Powdered sugar - 400 gr.
- Lemon - 1/4 pc.
- Water - about 8 tbsp.
- Food coloring - any
- Confectionery powders - optional
New Year is a bright and cheerful holiday. I want everything around to sparkle, shine and evoke a feeling of joy. This holiday is associated not only with bright colors and fun, but also with oranges, tangerines and other citrus fruits. Not a single New Year's holiday is complete without them. Therefore, I propose to bake orange cookies in the form of Christmas trees, cones, bells, etc. for the holiday this year. Children will surely enjoy not only eating it, but also helping in making and painting. Such cookies for the new year can be made a family tradition. There will be an occasion to have a good time with the whole family.
Orange cookies with sugar icing for the New Year - recipe with photo:
1. Prepare the products for the test: drain. butter, eggs, sugar, flour, orange, baking powder. You will also need cookie cutters.
2. Squeeze juice from one orange, and grate the zest or use a special knife.
3. Heat the butter in the microwave until soft, but not liquid, state (10-15 seconds). And mix it with sugar and vanilla sugar.
4. Add the eggs to the mashed butter with sugar. Let's mix.
5. Pour into the dough Orange juice and add grated zest.
6. Now gradually add the sifted flour with baking powder, kneading the dough.
7. The dough should be moderately soft. To make it easier to work with, put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
8. After 20 minutes, roll out the cooled dough with a thickness of 5-8 mm.
9. Cut out cookies using different Christmas molds. The remaining pieces of dough will need to be rolled out again to cut out the cookies.
10. We spread the orange cookies on the opponent covered with baking paper.
11. Let's send cookies to bake in preheated to 180 gr. oven for 10-15 minutes.
Sugar icing for cookies:
1. Our orange cookies are ready, it's time for decoration. Let's prepare necessary ingredients for glaze: Powdered sugar, lemon, dyes and multi-colored sprinkles.
2. Add a little lemon juice to a glass of water (8 tablespoons). And put fine powdered sugar in a separate bowl.
3. Add the resulting lemon syrup to powdered sugar and mix well until smooth.
4. Icing should be fairly liquid. Such that it was easy to paint cookies with a brush, and the paint did not flow down. If you see that you overdid it with water, add more powder. Or vice versa, if the cookies cannot be colored because the icing hardens on the go, add more syrup.
4. Divide the glaze into several parts to add a different dye to each of them. I used green and red dyes, and also added cocoa to one of the parts and left the other part just white.
5. Now you need to quickly color the orange cookies in different colors. I painted with a regular brush. You can dip the cookies completely into the icing and carefully lay them on flat surface for drying.
6. While the icing is not dry, you can immediately sprinkle the cookies with multi-colored sprinkles or coconut flakes immediately after coloring.
The icing on the cookies dries very quickly, so the cookies can soon be put together in a basket. The cover will not deteriorate.
Often prepared for holidays such as New Year, Christmas or Easter. But, despite this, it can become a frequent guest on your table. After all, a holiday can be arranged on any day, and please the family with something beautiful and unusual. The main thing is time and desire! :)
Ingredients sugar cookie and glaze
Sugar cookie:
3 cups (390 grams) wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup (227 grams) butter room temperature
1 cup (200 grams) sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract (liquid vanilla)
Glaze:
2 large (60 grams) egg whites
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
3 cups (330 grams) powdered sugar
Preparing sugar cookies and frosting
Sugar cookie:
In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt and soda.
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes). Continuing to beat, add the eggs and vanilla. Whisk until all ingredients are well mixed.
Add the flour mixture to the resulting mass and knead a smooth elastic dough.
Divide the dough in half and wrap each half in plastic wrap. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for about one hour so that it rolls out well enough and takes the desired shape.
Preheat the oven to (180 degrees C) and place a baking sheet lined with parchment paper in the center of the oven.
Remove one half of the chilled dough from the refrigerator and, on a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of about 1 cm. Check that the dough does not stick to the table by turning it slightly.
Assistant:)
Using a lightly floured cookie cutter, cut out cookie dough of the desired shape, and then carefully transfer the cookies to the baking sheet.
There are many forms of such cookies. Personally, we made a family of deer, Christmas trees, circles, a skate, a bear, stars, bells, squares.
Place the baking sheet with the raw cookies in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes to chill the dough. This is necessary so that the cookies do not lose their shape during baking.
Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes (depending on size) or until the edges just start to brown.
Then take the cookies out of the oven and let them cool.
Makes about 36 cookies per serving. We got this much from 2 servings of dough.
Egg White Frosting:
Whisk with a mixer egg whites With lemon juice. Then add sugar and beat at low speed until smooth. Add more sugar or water until desired consistency is reached. Add food coloring if needed. Glaze should be used immediately or stored in an airtight container as it hardens quickly when exposed to air.
After the cookies have cooled, we proceed to dye them with icing.. There are many options here too. Here's what we got:
Cookies can be frozen with frosting if needed. Make sure the frosting is completely dry before storing or packing (this may take several hours or overnight).
Store cookies between layers of parchment or wax paper.
After the icing dried, we packed it in transparent bags, tied it with ribbons and attached small postcards with the signature of the author. It turned out a box of wonderful sugar cookies with icing for a gift to relatives and friends.
