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Cookie Cutter Cookies
2 cups (8oz) all-purpose flour
1 stick (½ cup or4oz) butter
4oz superfine sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon of baking powder
To ice
4 heaped tablespoons of confectioners’ sugar (powdered sugar)
1 tablespoon or so of tepid water
A little food coloring
you will also need
1 baking sheet maybe 2
Parchment paper (optional)
The ingredients for this recipe should be at room temperature and
the butter soft. So you may need to leave the butter out of the
refrigerator for several hours or even overnight, and remove the
egg from the refrigerator about an hour or so before baking.
Then when you’re ready to begin grease or line with parchment
paper, a baking sheet and preheat the oven to 350°F.
Next put the flour into a bowl and add the butter, then with your
thumbs and fingertips rub the butter into the flour. Now, stir in
the sugar and baking powder. In a separate bowl beat the egg. Now
add the egg to the dry ingredients to form a dough. If the dough
is too sticky then add a little flour, if it’s too dry then
add a little milk.
Sprinkle a suitable surface or board and a rolling pin with flour
and roll out the dough to about a ¼ inch thickness. Then
dipping the cookie cutter in flour from time to time, cut into shapes
of your choice. Bake for about fifteen minutes or until pale and
golden but keep an eye on them, they may be ready sooner.
When baked remove the cookies from the oven. Then there are two
options, firstly the cookies can be sprinkled with superfine sugar
before carefully transferring them to a cooling rack and allowing
them to cool completely or alternatively after removing the cookies
from the oven transfer them to a cooling rack and leave to cool
completely before icing.
To ice the cookies – sift the confectioners’ sugar
into a bowl, then adding just enough tepid water to make an icing
that will thickly coat the back of a spoon, mix until smooth. If
the icing is too runny just add a little more confectioners’
sugar, too thick? Just add a little more tepid water.
Then with a skewer – this is a good way of controlling the
amount of color that you add – depending on how pale or intense
you would like the color to be add a drop or two of food coloring
and mix until even. Decorate the cookies as liked.
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