Dec 9, 20202 min read

Christmas/Sugar Cookies

Sugar/Christmas Cookies with Eggless Royal Icing

Sugar/Christmas Cookies 🌲 🍪

These Christmas Cookies are simply vanilla biscuits cut out in Christmas shapes and iced with colourful festive frosting. They taste like shortbread cookies, but not quite as buttery or crumbly. They are as classic as vanilla biscuits can be.Most cookies spread and puff up so they bear little resemblance to the shape you expected.But these hold their shape perfectly.

Recipe

Sugar/ Christmas Cookies 🍪 🎄(yields 38 big & 27 small cookies)

1.Unsalted Butter-225g (1 cup) at room temperature

Sugar-1 cup (220g)

In a large bowl beat together the butter and sugar till creamy.

2.Vanilla essence-1 tsp

Egg- 1 large

Add the egg & vanilla and beat in.

3.All purpose flour-450 gm(3-3 1/4 cups )

Baking powder-3/4 tsp

Salt -3/4 tsp

If you’re using salted butter skip the salt mentioned above.Mix together all the dry ingredients .

Add in the flour mixture 1 cup at a time and fold in.Repeat till all the flour is used and the mixture comes together as a dough.

Divide the dough into two parts and roll it out into discs 1/8” thickness,dusting flour as required.

Use cookie cutters to press out shapes and use a knife or spatula to transfer shapes to prepared baking sheets. Bake this in a preheated oven at 170 C for 10-12 minutes until the surface is pale golden and the edges are just beginning to turn light golden.

Allow cookies to cool completely on trays.

Eggless Royal Icing recipe

1.Sugar powder-2 cups

Cornflour-2 tbsps

Sieve the homemade sugar powder with cornflour .U can use store bought icing sugar instead.Omit the cornflour mentioned if you are using icing sugar as it already has cornflour in it.

2.Liquid Glucose-4 tsp

Lime juice-2 tsp

Water-4-6 tsp

In a bowl mix together all the above ingredients and 4 tsp water with a spoon.Use a hand blender to beat this till well blended.

Mixture will be thick. The consistency you're looking for is a slowly dripping icing that disappears into the bowl within about 12 seconds. Add water by drop if you think it's too thick. If it becomes too thin, add more powdered sugar by the teaspoon. Use immediately.

The lemon juice helps harden the icing, but you could substitute vanilla extract if you prefer for flavor purpose.

Keep all utensils completely grease-free.

To add color divide royal icing among several small bowls and stir in a few drops of gel paste. Cover the bowls with wet clothes so that the icing doesn’t dry out.

U can transfer the Royal icing to piping cones/bags and use it to frost the cooled cookies.