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I am going to keep this short and sweet. This week I made Dorie Greenspan’s recipe for Grandma’s All Occasion Sugar Cookies. I cut these extra thick because I am not a huge fan of crisp sugar cookies, so I wanted these to be a little soft and chewy. This dough was super soft and took some serious refrigeration in order for it to roll out and cut smoothly, but once thoroughly chilled the process was easy peasy. I decided to decorate these cookies with icing and sprinkles.
This was my first time working with Royal Icing, so it took me a minute to get used to it. While I love it’s appearance, I am not a huge fan of the taste…I even added a smidge of clear vanilla extract to cut down on the yuck factor; however, this did little to nothing. Maybe I need to experiment with different recipes for icing or maybe I did something wrong. All in all, the cookies were good, but nothing special, as for the icing…I really do not know what else to say about the icing. I am sure I will try out a few more sugar cookie recipes before the holiday season is over, so stay tuned! For the recipe, check out Ulrike’s blog Küchenlatein. You can also check out the TwD blog roll for more cookie making madness.
When i first started baking i started with cookies, and this link will provide you with decent royal icing recipes, they were easy and tasty as well.
Let me know if you like the recipe.
Tghe cookies look great. So festive!!!
can’t believe that was your first time using royal icing, they look perfect! beautiful job :) hope you find a recipe more to your taste, though!
Beautiful as always!
Just wondering if you piped a border around the cookies before filling them in?
I’m sorry you didn’t love the taste, but that’s probably all for the best, because your cookies are too beautiful to eat anyway!
Those are the cutest sugar cookies EVER!! I love them!!
Gorgeous cookies.
Those cookies look yummy!!
Your cookies look awesome Jamie! The coloured sugar looks great!
Bummer that you didn’t like the taste, but they look great!
I like buttercream on my sugar cookies, or even marshmallow fondant. Royal icing isn’t the tastiest thing in the world! :)