Rollin' In Dough

Tomorrow begins a brand new year! These frosted cookie cutouts are a great way to celebrate all that 2015 holds. Everyone loves cookies, don’t you think? These Homemade cookies are shockingly easy to make and they are perfect to share with family and friends on the holidays! The ingredients for the dough are items you can find in your house with no trouble. The dough recipe calls for “all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, superfine sugar, eggs, pure vanilla extract and buttermilk” (Perry 46). The only thing that you might not have is the superfine sugar, but I have a suggestion if you don’t want to go to the store. All you have to do is twirl 1 cup of granulated sugar at a time in a blender until it is fine! Thank goodness you don’t have to go to the store!

The best part about these cookies is you can decorate them however you want. Doesn’t matter, just add whatever food coloring you want to the frosting and you’re good to go! The icing is just as simple as the dough recipe. It calls for “powdered sugar, unsalted butter, salt, pure vanilla extract, pure lemon extract, whole milk and whatever food coloring you desire” (Perry 46). Easy right?  The only thing I didn’t like about the recipe is the dough has to be cooled in the fridge for two hours! That’s probably just me though…I’m a bit impatient. The dough should be divided into two flatten 6- to 8-inch disks” (Perry 46). If you’re patient (unlike myself) you can leave the dough overnight inside the fridge. And remember once you take the dough out of the fridge let it sit for a while to be chilled but make sure it is not too mushy.  Once you are finished with the cookies and taste them for the first time you’ll realize the wait was worth it! Do you think these cookies are worth it? Comment and explain!

Ingredients:

Dough-

2 ¼ cups of all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

2/3 cup bakers or superfine sugar, plus more for sprinkling

1 egg, at room temperature, lightly beaten

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

¼ cup buttermilk, at room temperature

Icing-

3 cups powdered sugar

1/3 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

Pinch of salt

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

½ teaspoon pure lemon extract

2 tablespoons whole milk or cream, plus more if needed

2 to 3 drops of food coloring

 Citation-

Perry, Sara. Holiday Baking. San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 2005. Print.