Recipe: Perfect Sugar cookies to decorate

Sugar cookies to decorate. Before we begin decorating, let's review my sugar cookie recipe. This recipe, pictured below as adorable little hearts, have slightly crisp edges and a nice flat surface. Sugar cookies are a delicious treat; with a little effort you can make them both tasty and beautiful.

They also dispel a common myth about what it takes to get perfectly decorated sugar cookies. Decorating cutout sugar cookies with royal icing has become super fun for me. The first couple of times it drove me crazy, but now I love it. You can cook Sugar cookies to decorate using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sugar cookies to decorate

It's 1 lb of butter.
Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
You need 2 of eggs.
It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
You need 1/4 tsp of almond extract.
It's 6 cups of flour.

Last week I promised that I'd have a video, tutorial and all the info you need to learn How to Decorate Cookies with Royal Icing and today is the day! Thin, flat cut-out cookies like sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies are the best candidates for decorating with icing. These cookies are sturdy enough that they won't crumble as you work with them and have large, flat areas that are just begging for a bit of decoration. This is the easiest way to decorate sugar cookies.

Sugar cookies to decorate instructions

Using a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until JUST combined..
Add eggs one at a time, combining in between each addition. Mix in vanilla extract and almond extract..
Add flour two cups at a time mixing on slow speed (you can cover the bowl with a tea towel to avoid flour spills) The dough will be soft and should not be too sticky to the touch..
Roll out the dough in one cup portions to be about 1/4” thick. I like to freeze the dough at this point to make cutting the cookies easier. Freeze the rolled dough for 5-10 minutes, depending on your climate..
Cut the cookies into your desired shape and place onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Space these cookies at least an inch apart. (They don’t have baking powder or baking soda but they do spread a tiny bit.).
Bake cookies for 9-12 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Once baked, let cookies cool on the pan for 5-10 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool..

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