Friday, October 16, 2009

The Cookies Finally worked...




I have to admit that I do love cookies. Ever since I moved to Denver, I have always had trouble getting cookies to turn out. Last Christmas I tried making snowflake sugar cookies and when they came out of the oven they looked more like a daisy. Today I wavered back and forth between making something with apples or baking cookies. My determination to beat the altitude and whatever else was causing my cookie curse won out and I found a recipe that claimed to be "no fail." We will see about that. But alas, they really didn't fail, they turned out delicious and beautiful!!!


No Fail Sugar Cookies

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract ( I use vanilla bean paste)
3 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well. Mix dry ingredients together and add slowly to butter mixture. Mix until the flour is completely incorporated. Chill for at least 1 hour. Roll out chilled dough on parchment or lightly floured surface. Cut in desired shape. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees.


Decorating Icing

1 pound confectioners sugar
5 tablespoons meringue powder
scant 1/2 cup water

Whisk together. Icing will be stiff. Tint desired color. Outline each cookie with icing, then thin remaining icing and "flood" the center of each cookie with thinned icing. Let set.

1 comment:

Lisa said...

I have never heard of meringue powder - can I find that at a regular grocery store?