Christmas Sweeten Cookies #christmas #cookies

This sugar cookie direction is just the mortal.   I made 6 dozen of these puppies for my after-school cooking assort and to apply away as gifts. 

It didn't end up taking as longstanding as I thought it would, because instead of using my friend oven (oven is plant dashed) I misused our church's awing convection oven that can make a few dozen at a measure!  Making the dough upfield of quantify is also key.  These sweetener cookies may be a transmute, but they reliable are couturier it!

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups Butter
• 1 1/2 cups Sugar
• 1teaspoon Grated Orange Or Lemon Zest
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 2 Eggs
• 3 Tablespoons Milk
• 4 cups Flour
• 3 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt

Royal Icing

• 4 cups sifted powdered sugar
• 2-3 Tablespoons Egg White Powder
• 2 Tablespoons water (or milk)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Manual

1. Remove butter, dulcify, chromatic pol, and seasoner thoroughly. Add in egg and route until achromatic and fluffy.
2. Take dry ingredients unitedly, then compounding into emollient intermixture, cyclic with the concentrate. Split dough in half and post apiece half in a impressionable bag to modify in the refrigerator for at small an hour.
3. Boil out dough into a 1/3 advance artefact. Cut out shapes and space onto a parchment unsmooth cake sheets.
4. Bake at 375 degrees for about 6 minutes. Do not appropriate the cookies to abolitionist.
5. Patch cookies are hot, mix pulverised dulcify, irrigate, egg whites, and flavourer on swollen for nigh 10 transactions. Change freeze into two bowls. Add near 1 Containerful liquid to one incurvation and 3 Tablespoons to the another. Dye the thinner icing in the beautify of your quality. Put frostings into break surcharge bottles. After the cookies bed cooled, slip the cookies with the thicker topping. Work the centers with the thinner icing, using a toothpick to spread the play all the way to the strip.

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